Gender affects word retrieval of certain categories in semantic fluency tasks

Cortex

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 273-278

  Capitani, Erminio ^c   Laiacona, Marcella ^a   Barbarotto, Riccardo ^b  

^a Clin del Lavoro e della Riabilit   (Italy)

^b Villa S Ambrogio F   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Education; Gender differences; Semantic fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032946133     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70800-1     Document Type: Article

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