Are Automatic Conceptual Cores the Gold Standard of Semantic Processing? The Context-Dependence of Spatial Meaning in Grounded Congruency Effects

Cognitive Science

Volumn 39, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1764-1801

  Lebois, Lauren A M ^a   Wilson Mendenhall, Christine D ^b   Barsalou, Lawrence W ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automaticity; Conceptual processing; Congruency effects; Context effects; Grounded cognition; Lexical semantics; Representation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; SEMANTICS; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; STROOP TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947205472     PISSN: 03640213     EISSN: 15516709     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.12174     Document Type: Article

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