Spoken word recognition in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type: Changes in talker normalization and lexical discrimination

Psychology and Aging

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 631-646

  Sommers, Mitchell S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; PSYCHOMETRY; SPEECH PERCEPTION; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 0032433214     PISSN: 08827974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0882-7974.13.4.631     Document Type: Article

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