The Relationship Between Semantic Short-Term Memory and Immediate Serial Recall of Known and Unknown Words and Nonwords: Data From Two Chinese Individuals With Aphasia

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 900-917

  Wong, Winsy ^a   Law, Sam Po ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese aphasia; immediate serial recall; phonological representations of Chinese; short term memory model

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; CORTICAL SENSORY APHASIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PHONETICS; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ADULT; APHASIA, WERNICKE; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 47549097140     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0278-7393.34.4.900     Document Type: Article

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