Category fluency in a Latino sample: Associations with age, education, gender, and language

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 591-598

  Mack, Wendy J ^a   Teng, Evelyn ^a   Zheng, Ling ^a   Paz, Sylvia ^a   Chui, Helena ^a   Varma, Rohit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GENDER; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEX FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 21244479682     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390490918417     Document Type: Article

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