Sentence context influences the interpretation of word meaning by Alzheimer patients

Brain and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 233-245

  Nebes, Robert D ^a   Halligan, Edythe M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 0030219460     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0073     Document Type: Article

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