Syntactic comprehension deficits in Alzheimer's disease

Brain and Language

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 432-448

  Bickel, Claudia ^b   Pantel, Johannes ^b   Eysenbach, Katrin ^b   Schröder, Johannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY;

EID: 0034652754     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brln.1999.2277     Document Type: Article

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