Last in, first to go: Age of acquisition and naming in the elderly

Brain and Language

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 146-163

  Hodgson, Catherine ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0032145870     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1998.1960     Document Type: Article

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