Semantic and phonological processing in illiteracy

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 818-827

  Kosmidis, Mary H ^a   Tsapkini, Kyrana ^a   Folia, Vasiliki ^a   Vlahou, Christina H ^a   Kiosseoglou, Grigoris ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Greek; Illiteracy; Language processing; Neuropsychological; Phonological; Semantic

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ACCESS TO INFORMATION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; READING; SEMANTICS; SKILL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; COGNITION; CULTURE; DICHOTIC LISTENING TESTS; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 8344250283     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617704106036     Document Type: Article

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