Reading latency of words and nonwords in Alzheimer's patients

Cortex

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 293-298

  Passafiume, Domenico ^a,b   Di Giacomo, Dina ^b   Giubilei, Franco ^c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer; Reading; Semantic knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; READING; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0034005744     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0010-9452(08)70531-8     Document Type: Article

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