Manual Experience Shapes Object Representations

Psychological Science

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 909-919

  Yee, Eiling ^a   Chrysikou, Evangelia G ^b   Hoffman, Esther ^c   Thompson Schill, Sharon L ^d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

action concepts; cognition; cognitive neuroscience; embodied cognition; individual experience; language; meaning; semantic memory; semantic representations; simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878810116     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797612464658     Document Type: Article

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