Five days versus a lifetime: Intense associative vocabulary training generates lexically integrated words

Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2007, Pages 493-500

  Breitenstein, Caterina ^a   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^a   De Vries, Meinou H ^a   Feldhues, Christiane ^a   Knecht, Stefan ^a   Dobel, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anomia; Aphasia therapy; Language acquisition; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIFESPAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH ARTICULATION; SPEECH THERAPY; VISUAL INFORMATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 42149156024     PISSN: 09226028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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