Lexical priming by pictures and words in normal aging and in dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Brain and Language

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 275-301

  Margolin, David Ira ^a   Pate, Debra Sue ^a   Friedrich, Frances J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0030219711     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1996.0076     Document Type: Article

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