Shared features dominate semantic richness effects for concrete concepts
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Shared Features Dominate Semantic Richness Effects for Concrete Concepts.
When asked to list semantic features for concrete concepts, participants list many features for some concepts and few for others. Concepts with many semantic features are processed faster in lexical and semantic decision tasks (Pexman, Holyk, & Monfils, 2003; Pexman, Lupker, & Hino, 2002). Using both lexical and concreteness decision tasks, we provided further insight into these number-of-featu...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Memory and Language
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0749-596X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2008.09.001