Lexical processing in illiteracy: Effect of literacy or education?

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1021-1027

  Kosmidis, Mary H ^a   Tsapkini, Kyrana ^a   Folia, Vasiliki ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Auditory lexical processing; Education; Literacy illiteracy; Neuropsychological

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 33845888002     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70208-9     Document Type: Article

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