Effect of typicality on online category verification of animate category exemplars in aphasia

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 441-450

  Kiran, Swathi ^a   Thompson, Cynthia K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Category prototype; Reaction times; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; HUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0037987983     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00064-6     Document Type: Article

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