Word finding in the damaged brain: Probing Marshall's caveat

Cortex

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 817-822

  Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Anomia; Aphasia; Category specificity; Familiarity; Word frequency

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANOMIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; AGE; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANOMIA; HUMANS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 34248666077     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70423-4     Document Type: Article

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