Investigating the Role of Action Representations in Sentence Comprehension

The effect hand action representations have on language processing was investigated using eye-tracking techniques. Subjects were shown an image of a hand action and asked to hold the action in working memory while reading a sentence, which described an actor lifting, or using an object. The displaye...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heard, Alison
Other Authors: Masson, Michael E. J.
Language:English
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Published: 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1828/5339