Influence of encoding difficulty, word frequency, and phonological regularity on age differences in word naming

Experimental Aging Research

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 261-292

  Allen, Philip A ^a   Bucur, Barbara ^b   Grabbe, Jeremy ^c   Work, Tammy ^a   Madden, David J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI ST LOUIS   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; COMPREHENSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957526372     PISSN: 0361073X     EISSN: 10964657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0361073X.2011.568805     Document Type: Article

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