The highs and lows of the interaction between word meaning and space

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 964-973

  Thornton, Therese ^a   Loetscher, Tobias ^b   Yates, Mark J ^a   Nicholls, Michael E R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Language comprehension; Spatial attention; Spatial cognition; Stimulus response compatibility

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84874528214     PISSN: 00961523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0030467     Document Type: Article

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