Verbal fluency output in children aged 7-16 as a function of the production criterion: Qualitative analysis of clustering, switching processes, and semantic network exploitation

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 192-202

  Sauzeon H ^a   Lestage, P ^a   Raboutet, C ^a   N'Kaoua, B ^a   Claverie, B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SOUND; SPEECH ARTICULATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 1542268987     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00367-5     Document Type: Article

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