Semantic and phonological information in sentence recall: Converging psycholinguistic and neuropsychological evidence

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 521-545

  Schweppe, Judith ^a   Rummer, Ralf ^a   Bormann, Tobias ^b   Martin, Randi C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERFURT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intrusion paradigm; Phonology; Semantics; Sentence recall; Short term memory impairment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH DISORDER; STATISTICS;

ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84864570074     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2012.689759     Document Type: Article

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