Cortical and subcortical influences on clustering and switching in the performance of verbal fluency tasks

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 295-304

  Tröster, Alexander I ^a   Fields, Julie A ^a   Testa, Julie A ^b   Paul, Robert H ^b   Blanco, Carlos R ^b   Hames, Karen A ^b   Salmon, David P ^c   Beatty, William W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Lexical memory; Multiple sclerosis; Parkinson's disease; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PARKINSON DISEASE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0032052646     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(97)00153-X     Document Type: Article

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