Word reading in Alzheimer's disease: Cross-sectional and longitudinal analyses of response time and accuracy data

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 155-171

  Strain, Eamon ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Graham, Naida ^a,b   Hodges, John R ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Longitudinal analyses; Reading; RT measures; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ERROR; HUMAN; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; READING; RESPONSE TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0032005278     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00092-4     Document Type: Article

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