Lexical competition and phonological encoding in young and older speakers

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 804-809

  LaGrone, Susan ^a   Spieler, Daniel H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Lexical competition; Phonological encoding; Picture naming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPETITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OBJECT RELATION; PHONETICS; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 33846021244     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.21.4.804     Document Type: Article

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