Fine-Grained Semantic Categorization across the Abstract and Concrete Domains

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Ghio, Marta ^a   Vaghi, Matilde Maria Serena ^b   Tettamanti, Marco ^c  

^a SCUOLA NORMALE SUPERIORE   (Italy)

^b VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL HEALTH; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; SEMANTICS; THEORETICAL STUDY; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879325031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067090     Document Type: Article

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