Consequences of an inhibition deficit for word production and comprehension: Evidence from the semantic blocking paradigm

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 493-527

  Biegler, Kelly A ^a   Crowther, Jason E ^a   Martin, Randi C ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Inhibition; Lexical selection; Production; Semantic blocking

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLUENCY DISORDER; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGED; APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, WERNICKE; BRAIN; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURAL INHIBITION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 49749107069     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701862316     Document Type: Article

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