Converging Modalities Ground Abstract Categories: The Case of Politics

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Farias, Ana Rita ^a,b   Garrido, Margarida V ^a,b   Semin, Gün R ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c KOÇ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; DECISION MAKING; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IDEOLOGY; MALE; ORIENTATION; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; PREDICTION; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SYMBOLISM; VISUAL STIMULATION;

POLITICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84876050873     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060971     Document Type: Article

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