What makes words special? Words as unmotivated cues

Cognition

Volumn 143, Issue , 2015, Pages 93-100

  Edmiston, Pierce ^a   Lupyan, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Categories; Concepts; Environmental sounds; Labels; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE MOVEMENT; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RETINA IMAGE; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; LINGUISTICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CUES; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84935033000     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.06.008     Document Type: Article

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