Verbal fluency over time as a measure of automatic and controlled processing in children with ADHD

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 535-544

  Hurks, P P M ^a   Hendriksen, J G M ^a,b,c   Vles, J S H ^b   Kalff, A C ^a   Feron, F J M ^d   Kroes, M ^b   Van Zeben, T M C B ^b   Steyaert, J ^b   Jolles, J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Child Rehab Center Franciscusoord   (Netherlands)

^d Municipal Health Centre   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ADHD; Automatic controlled processing; Children; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MENTAL PROCESSES; REACTION TIME; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 3042605008     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.03.003     Document Type: Article

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