Learning Chinese characters may improve visual recall

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 93, Issue 3 PART 1, 2001, Pages 579-594

  Sugishita, Morihiro ^a   Omura, Kazufumi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; READING; RECALL; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE; WRITING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); UNITED STATES; VERBAL LEARNING; WECHSLER SCALES; WRITING;

EID: 0035749539     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.2001.93.3.579     Document Type: Article

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