Activating Situation Schemas: The Effects of Multiple Thematic Roles on Related Verbs in a Continuous Priming Paradigm

Journal of Psycholinguistic Research

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-19

  Herlofsky, Stacey M ^a   Edmonds, Lisa A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous; Priming; Roles; Semantic; Thematic

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872650970     PISSN: 00906905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10936-012-9206-6     Document Type: Article

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