Differential effects of age-of-acquisition for concrete nouns and action verbs: Evidence for partly distinct representations?

Cognition

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 131-146

  Boulenger, Véronique ^a   Décoppet, Nathalie ^a   Roy, Alice C ^a   Paulignan, Yves ^a   Nazir, Tatjana A ^a  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES COGNITIVES   (France)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Concrete nouns and action verbs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NERVE NET; REACTION TIME; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33846796129     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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