Performance of younger and older adults on tests of word knowledge and word retrieval: Independence or interdependence of skills?

American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 36-45

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Yafé, Ronit ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cognitive aging; Language testing; Naming; Verbal fluency; Vocabulary

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGY; RECALL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84897591165     PISSN: 10580360     EISSN: 15589110     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1058-0360(2013/12-0136)     Document Type: Article

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