Associative and recognition memory for novel objects in dementia: Implications for diagnosis

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1660-1670

  Lee, Andy C H ^a   Rahman, Shibley ^b   Hodges, John R ^a,c   Sahakian, Barbara J ^b   Graham, Kim S ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Frontotemporal dementia; Human; Perception; Perirhinal cortex; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; APTITUDE TEST; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; NERVE DEGENERATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MIDDLE AGED; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0141481988     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02883.x     Document Type: Article

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