The relationship between naming and semantic knowledge for different categories in dementia of Alzheimer's type

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 1251-1260

  Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^b   Hodges, John R ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Category specificity; Naming; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0030821704     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00052-3     Document Type: Article

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