A bruner-potter effect in audition? Spoken word recognition in adult aging

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 907-912

  Lash, Amanda ^a   Wingfield, Arthur ^a  

^a BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult aging; Perceptual interference; Word recognition; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEARING; HEARING ACUITY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECOGNITION; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUDITORY STIMULATION; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84925583821     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: 19391498     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0037829     Document Type: Article

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