Children's Computation of Complex Linguistic Forms: A Study of Frequency and Imageability Effects

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Dye, Cristina D ^a,b   Walenski, Matthew ^c,d   Prado, Elizabeth L ^b,e   Mostofsky, Stewart ^f   Ullman, Michael T ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGINATION; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MORPHOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; PHONETICS; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEX FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883607383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074683     Document Type: Article

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