Why do picture naming latencies increase with age: General slowing, greater sensitivity to interference, or task-specific deficits?

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 21-51

  Feyereisen, Pierre ^a   Demaeght, Nathalie ^b   Samson, Dana ^b  

^a PSP/EXPE/NECO   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LATENT PERIOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0031911180     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/036107398244346     Document Type: Article

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