Word familiarity influences word-stem completion in amnesic patients.
The effect of familiarity to word-stem completion priming in amnesic patients was studied. A smaller priming effect of low familiarity of words in amnesic patients indicated that the process of lexical access may be involved in word-stem completion in amnesic patients.
Motomura
Naoyasu
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Department of Health Science, Osaka University of Education, Kashiwara City, Japan. motomura@cc.osaka-kyoiku.ac.jp
D000328:Adult; D000425:Alcohol Amnestic Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D000647:Amnesia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014825:Vocabulary