Sensitivity to increased task demands: Contributions from data-driven and conceptually driven information processing deficits

Topics in Language Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 30-48

  Gillam, Ronald B ^a   Hoffman, LaVae M ^a   Marler, Jeffrey A ^b   Wynn Dancy, M Lorraine ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORFOLK STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Central executive; Information processing; Language impairment; Memory; Perception

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036586161     PISSN: 02718294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00011363-200205000-00005     Document Type: Article

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