Influence of prior pictorial context on sentence comprehension in older versus younger aphasic subjects

Aphasiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 235-247

  Hough, M S ^a   Vogel, D ^b   Cannito, M P ^c   Pierce, R S ^d  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

^d KENT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; APHASIA; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LANGUAGE; MALE; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORKING MEMORY; WRITING;

EID: 0030987985     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687039708248467     Document Type: Article

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