Evidence for a basic level in a taxonomy of everyday action sounds

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 226, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 253-264

  Lemaitre, Guillaume ^a   Heller, Laurie M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory cognition; Identification; Semantic priming; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SOUND; TAXONOMY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SOUND; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879462514     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-013-3430-7     Document Type: Article

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