Taste and smell words form an affectively loaded and emotionally flexible part of the English lexicon

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 975-988

  Winter, Bodo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; emotional language; modality specific processing; sensory modalities; valence

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; ODOR;

EID: 84974822821     PISSN: 23273798     EISSN: 23273801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2016.1193619     Document Type: Article

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