Illiteracy: A cause for biased cognitive development

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 444-450

  Reis, Alexandra ^a   Castro Caldas, Alexandre ^a  

^a Centro de Estudos Egas Moniz   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Illiteracy; Language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030884543     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s135561779700444x     Document Type: Article

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