Semantic classification of pictures and words

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 68, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1502-1518

  Taikh, Alex ^a   Hargreaves, Ian S ^a   Yap, Melvin J ^b   Pexman, Penny M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Picture classification; Semantic memory; Semantic processing; Semantic richness

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGINATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84936847364     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2014.975728     Document Type: Article

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