Lexical neighborhood density effects on spoken word recognition and production in healthy aging

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 65 B, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 551-560

  Taler, Vanessa ^a,b,c   Aaron, Geoffrey P ^a   Steinmetz, Lauren G ^b,d   Pisoni, David B ^a,b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Lexical competition; Lexical discrimination; Neighborhood density; Speech production; Spoken word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955873688     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbq039     Document Type: Article

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