Sentence comprehension in Alzheimer's disease: Effects of grammatical complexity, speech rate, and repetition

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 3-11

  Small, Jeff A ^a   Kemper, Susan ^b   Lyons, Kelly ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; SPEECH;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0030917234     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.12.1.3     Document Type: Article

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