Event-related brain potentials during semantic categorization in normal aging and senile dementia of the Alzheimer's type

Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology - Evoked Potentials

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 392-406

  Iragui, Vicente ^a,c   Kutas, Marta ^b   Salmon, David P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Event related potentials; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0030248189     PISSN: 01685597     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-884X(96)95117-6     Document Type: Article

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