The effects of age and education on executive functioning and oral naming performance in greek cypriot adults: The neurocognitive study for the aging

Folia Phoniatrica et Logopaedica

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 187-198

  Constantinidou, Fofi ^a   Christodoulou, Marianna ^a   Prokopiou, Juliana ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Aging; Cognition; Education; Executive functioning; Greek; Language; Lexical access; Lexicon; Semantic memory; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REACTION TIME; RECALL; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; REVERSAL LEARNING; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84868142510     PISSN: 10217762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000340015     Document Type: Article

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