Situated conceptualization and semantic processing: effects of emotional experience and context availability in semantic categorization and naming tasks

Psychonomic Bulletin and Review

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 408-419

  Moffat, Michael ^a   Siakaluk, Paul D ^a   Sidhu, David M ^a,b   Pexman, Penny M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Context availability; Emotional experience; Grounded cognition; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

AROUSAL; ASSOCIATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERNAL-EXTERNAL CONTROL; MALE; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939876933     PISSN: 10699384     EISSN: 15315320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-014-0696-0     Document Type: Article

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