Individual differences in online spoken word recognition: Implications for SLI

Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-39

  McMurray, Bob ^a   Samelson, Vicki M ^b   Lee, Sung Hee ^c   Bruce Tomblin, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN EAU CLAIRE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Connectionist models; Individual differences; Lexical decay; Specific language impairment; Spoken word recognition; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70449651685     PISSN: 00100285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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