Identification of famous faces and famous names in early Alzheimer's disease: Relationship to anterograde episodic and general semantic memory

Brain

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 111-128

  Greene, John D W ^a   Hodges, John R ^a  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Remote memory; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FACE; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0029960873     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/119.1.111     Document Type: Article

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