Treatment of category generation and retrieval in aphasia: Effect of typicality of category items

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1101-1117

  Kiran, Swathi ^a   Sandberg, Chaleece ^a   Sebastian, Rajani ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aphasia; Rehabilitation; Semantic; Typicality

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONDUCTION APHASIA; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOMIA; APHASIA, CONDUCTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79961133768     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2010/10-0117)     Document Type: Article

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