Treatment of anomia using errorless versus errorful learning: Are frontal executive skills and feedback important?

International Journal of Language and Communication Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 505-523

  Fillingham, Joanne K ^a   Sage, Karen ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; Cognition; Errorful; Errorless; Executive; Frontal; Word finding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING TEST; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LANGUAGE THERAPY; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 24944499283     PISSN: 13682822     EISSN: 14606984     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13682820500138572     Document Type: Article

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