Does sex influence the age of acquisition of common names? A contrast of different semantic categories

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1161-1170

  Barbarotto, Riccardo ^a   Laiacona, Marcella ^b   Capitani, Erminio ^c  

^a S Ambrogio Hospital   (Italy)

^b IRCCS   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Semantic categories; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KNOWLEDGE; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NOMENCLATURE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 50349092536     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.08.016     Document Type: Article

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