Perseveration in Normal Aging: A Comparison of Perseveration Rates on Design Fluency and Verbal Generative Tasks

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 268-280

  Foldi, Nancy S ^a,b   Helm Estabrooks, Nancy ^c   Redfield, Joel ^d   Nickel, Debra Gail ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Psychological Corporation ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LINGUISTICS; NORMAL HUMAN; PERSEVERATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1642533498     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.4.268.28970     Document Type: Article

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