Semantic organization in children with cochlear implants: Computational analysis of verbal fluency

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Kenett, Yoed N ^a   Wechsler Kashi, Deena ^a,b   Kenett, Dror Y ^c,d   Schwartz, Richard G ^e   Ben Jacob, Eshel ^c   Faust, Miriam ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b ONO ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d USA   (United States)

^e CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cochlear implants; Mental lexicon; Network science; Semantic networks; Spreading activation; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885348876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00543     Document Type: Article

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