Flexible recruitment of semantic richness: Context modulates body-object interaction effects in lexical-semantic processing

Body-object interaction (BOI) is a semantic richness variable that measures the perceived ease with which the human body can physically interact with a word’s referent. Lexical and semantic processing is facilitated when words are associated with relatively more bodily experience (high BOI words, e....

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Main Authors: Cody eTousignant, Penny M Pexman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2012.00053/full