Asymmetric aging effects on semantic and phonological processes: Naming in the picture-word interference task

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 662-676

  Taylor, Jennifer K ^a,c   Burke, Deborah M ^b  

^a CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0036905148     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.17.4.662     Document Type: Article

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