Lexical effects and lexical properties associated with national adult reading test (NART) stimuli in healthy young adults and healthy elderly adults

Journal of Clinical Psychology

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 577-584

  Ferraro, F Richard ^a   Sturgill, Danial ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL CLASS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 0031815706     PISSN: 00219762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4679(199808)54:5<577::AID-JCLP3>3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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