Non-associative lexical priming is impaired in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1365-1372

  Heindel, William C ^a   Cahn, Deborah A ^c   Salmon, David P ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Box 1853 ^*

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Lexical priming; Memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERBAL LEARNING;

EID: 0030690365     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00056-0     Document Type: Article

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