New age-linked asymmetries: Aging and the processing of familiar versus novel language on the input versus output side

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 94-103

  James, Lori E ^a   MacKay, Donald G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Language perception; Language production; Lexical decision; Pronunciation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; READING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGING; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 33947680280     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.22.1.94     Document Type: Article

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