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Is “earth” an animate thing? Cross-language and inter-age analyses of animacy word ratings in European Portuguese and British English young and older adults

Animacy plays an important role in cognition (e.g., memory and language). Across languages, a processing advantage for animate words (representing living beings), comparatively to inanimate words (i.e., non-living things), has been found mostly in young adults. Evidence in older adults, though, is s...

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Autores principales: Félix, Sara B., Poirier, Marie, Pandeirada, Josefa N. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10403098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37540675
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289755