The effects of age of acquisition and frequency trajectory on object naming: Comments on Perez (2007)

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 62, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1132-1140

  Bonin, Patrick ^a   Meot, Alain ^a   Mermillod, Martial ^a   Ferrand, Ludovic ^a   Barry, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Objective frequency; Picture naming

Indexed keywords

AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AGING; HUMANS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67651244935     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470210802618850     Document Type: Article

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