No childhood advantage in the acquisition of skill in using an artificial language rule

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Ferman, Sara ^a   Karni, Avi ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECLARATIVE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; PROCEDURAL MEMORY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; AGE; LANGUAGE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING;

EID: 78149428472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013648     Document Type: Article

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