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Brousseau, Geri; Buchanan, Lori – Brain and Language, 2004
The semantic category effect represents a category dissociation between biological and nonbiological objects in picture naming. The aim of this preliminary study was to further examine this phenomenon, and to explore the possible association between the effect and subjective emotional valence for the named objects. Using a speeded picture naming…
Descriptors: Semantics, College Students, Females, Reaction Time

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