Love is... an abstract word: The influence of lexical semantics on verbal short-term memory in Williams syndrome

Cortex

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 169-179

  Laing, Emma ^a,b   Grant, Julia ^a   Thomas, Michael ^a   Parmigiani, Charlotte ^a   Ewing, Sandra ^a   Karmiloff Smith, Annette ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Language acquisition; Phonology; Semantics; Short term memory; Williams syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COLOR VISION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL TASK; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL ACUITY; WILLIAMS BEUREN SYNDROME;

EID: 13244299066     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70891-8     Document Type: Article

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