Cognitive adaptations arising from nonnative experience of sign language in hearing adults

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 752-761

  Keehner, Madeleine ^a   Gathercole, Susan E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^b DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SIGN LANGUAGE; SPATIAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 34547859221     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/BF03193312     Document Type: Article

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