The effect of lexical frequency on spoken word recognition in young and older listeners

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-87

  Revill, Kathleen Pirog ^a   Spieler, Daniel H ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyetracking; Lexical frequency; Spoken word recognition; Visual world paradigm

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSONANT; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEXICAL FREQUENCY; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); WORD RECOGNITION; ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; EYE FIXATION; LANGUAGE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; OCULOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS; TIME;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84863630686     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0024113     Document Type: Article

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