Associative vocabulary learning: Development and testing of two paradigms for the (re-) acquisition of action- and object-related words

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Freundlieb, Nils ^a   Ridder, Volker ^a   Dobel, Christian ^b   Enriquez Geppert, Stefanie ^b   Baumgaertner, Annette ^c   Zwitserlood, Pienie ^b   Gerloff, Christian ^a   Hummel, Friedhelm C ^a   Liuzzi, Gianpiero ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c FRESENIUS UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTION RELATED WORD; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RELATED WORD; PERCEPTION; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SPEECH THERAPY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; GERMANY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REACTION TIME;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RETENTION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84862008843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037033     Document Type: Article

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