The bilingual effect on Boston Naming Test performance

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 197-208

  Gollan, Tamar H ^a,b   Fennema Notestine, Christine ^a,b,c   Montoya, Rosa I ^d   Jernigan, Terry L ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Assessment; Cognate; Elderly; Scoring; Spanish

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PAIRED-ASSOCIATE LEARNING; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 33947646939     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617707070038     Document Type: Article

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