The semantic memory impairment of Alzheimer's Disease: Category-specific?

Cortex

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 143-153

  Tippett, Lynette J ^a,b   Grossman, Murray ^a   Farah, Martha J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MALE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0029883715     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(96)80023-2     Document Type: Article

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