Lexical Priming Deficits as a Function of Age

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1990, Pages 288-297

  Davis, Hasker P ^a   Cohen, Alisa ^a   Gandy, Michele ^a   Colombo, Paul ^a   VanDusseldorp, Gene ^a   Simolke, Neil ^a   Romano, Jane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CUES; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PHONETICS; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0025362574     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.104.2.288     Document Type: Article

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