Searching for the right word: Performance on four word-retrieval tasks across childhood

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 549-563

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Kukulansky Segal, Dorit ^b   Avraham, Ayelet ^b   Herzberg, Orly ^b,c   Landa, Janna ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Executive lexical search; Language; Naming; Verbal fluency; Word retrieval

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 78249255801     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: 17444136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2010.485124     Document Type: Article

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