Remembering Words Never Presented: False Memory Effects in Dementia of the Alzheimer Type

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 281-297

  Waldie, Barbara D ^a   Kwong See, Sheree T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 1642574262     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/anec.10.4.281.28969     Document Type: Article

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