“It is alive!” Evidence for animacy effects in semantic categorization and lexical decision
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716419000092
Abstract: Abstract Animacy is one of the basic semantic features of word meaning and influences perceptual and episodic memory processes. However, evidence that this variable also influences lexicosemantic processing is mixed. As animacy is a semantic… read more here.
Keywords: semantic categorization; animacy; categorization; evidence ... See more keywords