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SUBMITTER: Westbury CF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4945641 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Westbury Chris F CF Cribben Ivor I Cummine Jacqueline J
Frontiers in human neuroscience 20160715
The construct of imageability refers to the extent to which a word evokes a tangible sensation. Previous research (Westbury et al., 2013) suggests that the behavioral effects attributed to a word's imageability can be largely or wholly explained by two objective constructs, contextual density and estimated affect. Here, we extend these previous findings in two ways. First, we show that closely matched stimuli on the three measures of contextual density, estimated affect, and human-judged imageab ...[more]