Concreteness-dependent associative priming: Separate lexical organization for concrete and abstract words.

A spreading-activation theory of semantic processing.

Allan M. Collins, Elizabeth F. Loftus · Psychological Review · 1975 · 8.1K citations

Language Studies, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +10

Concreteness, imagery, and meaningfulness values for 925 nouns.

Allan Paivio, Stephen Madigan · Journal of Experimental Psychology · 1968 · 2.8K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Pragmatics +9

Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: Roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited-capacity attention.

James H. Neely · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1977 · 2.7K citations

Medicine, Psychology, Cognitive Psychology +15

Information Processing and Cognition: The Loyola Symposium

Alan S. Brown, Robert L. Solso · The American Journal of Psychology · 1976 · 2.4K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +14

The language-as-fixed-effect fallacy: A critique of language statistics in psychological research

Herbert H. Clark · Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior · 1973 · 2.3K citations

Language Studies, Linguistics, Psychology +5