Age of Acquisition Effects in Adult Lexical Processing Reflect Loss of Plasticity in Maturing Systems: Insights from Connectionist Networks

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1103-1123

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b Med Res Cncl Cogn Brain Sci U   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0034276767     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.26.5.1103     Document Type: Article

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