Object interference in children's colour and position naming: Lexical interference or task-set competition?

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 568-588

  la Heij, Wido ^a   Boelens, Harrie ^a   Kuipers, Jan Rouke ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Colour naming; Executive control; Interference; Position naming; Stroop

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COLOR; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; POSITION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORY STIMULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77951659911     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960903381174     Document Type: Article

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