The Time Course of Metonymic Language Text Processing by Older and Younger Adults

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 75-94

  Humphrey, Heather E ^a   Kemper, Susan ^a   Radel, Jeffrey D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYE FIXATION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; METAPHOR; READING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0345872313     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610730490251496     Document Type: Article

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