Sentence comprehension and general working memory

Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 147-156

  Moser, Dana ^a   Fridriksson, Julius ^a   Healy, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; ONLINE ANALYTICAL PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; COGNITION; LINGUISTICS; MEMORY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; REACTION TIME; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34247895797     PISSN: 02699206     EISSN: 14645076     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02699200600782526     Document Type: Article

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