The Structure of Experience

Understanding Events: From Perception to Action

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages

  Tversky, Barbara ^a   Zacks, Jeffrey M ^b   Hard, Bridgette Martin ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Events; Language; Morphemes; Objects; Partitioning; Phonemes; Scenes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920127125     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188370.003.0019     Document Type: Chapter

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