Dual systems of speech category learning across the lifespan

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1042-1056

  Todd Maddox, W ^a   Chandrasekaran, Bharath ^a   Smayda, Kirsten ^a   Yi, Han Gyol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Auditory category learning; Information integration; Reflective system; Reflexive system; Rule based; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY ORIENTATION; COGNITION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEARNING AID; LIFESPAN; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WORKING MEMORY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BASAL GANGLIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPEECH;

EID: 84891103004     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0034969     Document Type: Article

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