The semantic category effect increases with worsening anomia in Alzheimer's type dementia

Brain and Language

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 134-147

  Whatmough, C ^a,b   Chertkow, H ^a,b,c   Murtha, S ^a,d   Templeman, D ^a,b   Babins, L ^a   Kelner, N ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SEMANTICS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0037285173     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00524-2     Document Type: Article

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