The many places of frequency: Evidence for a novel locus of the lexical frequency effect in word production

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 256-286

  Knobel, Mark ^a   Finkbeiner, Matthew ^b   Caramazza, Alfonso ^a,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANOMIA; APHASIA, CONDUCTION; ATTENTION; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMPREHENSION; DOMINANCE, CEREBRAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE NET; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 45749115379     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701502425     Document Type: Article

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