Word learning and lexical development across the lifespan

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 364, Issue 1536, 2009, Pages 3607-3615

  Gareth Gaskell, M ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acquisition; Connectionism; Memory; Neuroimaging; Psycholinguistics; Word learning

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MEMORY; NEUROLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; RESEARCH WORK; YOUNG POPULATION;

EID: 73949157456     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2009.0213     Document Type: Review

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