Fast mapping semantic features: Performance of adults with normal language, history of disorders of spoken and written language, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder on a word-learning task

Journal of Communication Disorders

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 347-364

  Alt, Mary ^a   Gutmann, Michelle L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORKING MEMORY; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67651070654     PISSN: 00219924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcomdis.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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