Semantic satiation in healthy young and older adults

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 190-202

  Balota, David A ^a   Black, Sheila ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FATIGUE; HABITUATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERCEPTION; PHONATION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030944496     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03201112     Document Type: Article

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