Category size effects in semantic and letter fluency in Alzheimer's patients

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 108-114

  Diaz, Michael ^a,c   Sailor, Kevin ^a   Cheung, Doris ^a   Kuslansky, Gail ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MALE; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT;

EID: 1542328890     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00307-9     Document Type: Article

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