Lexical-semantic variables affecting picture and word naming in Chinese: A mixed logit model study in aphasia

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 165-184

  Crepaldi, Davide ^a   Che, Wei Chun ^b   Su, I Fan ^c   Luzzatti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

age of acquisition; aphasia; Chinese; imageability; mixed effect model; nouns; picture naming; verbs; word naming

Indexed keywords

ANOMIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; ATAXIC APHASIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONDUCTION APHASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; PICTURE NAMING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; WORD NAMING;

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862988316     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: 18758584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/178401     Document Type: Article

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