Dissociation between Syntactic and Semantic Processing during Idiom Comprehension

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 1223-1237

  Peterson, Robert R ^a   Dell, Gary S ^b   Burgess, Curt ^c   Eberhard, Kathleen M ^d  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PAIRED ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 85047684491     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.27.5.1223     Document Type: Article

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