Stored object knowledge and the production of referring expressions: the case of color typicality

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Westerbeek, Hans ^a   Koolen, Ruud ^a   Maes, Alfons ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

cognitive visual saliency; color typicality; content determination; models of reference production; reference production

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977171844     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00935     Document Type: Article

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