Action verbal fluency normative data for the elderly

Brain and Language

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 580-583

  Piatt, Andrea L ^a   Fields, Julie A ^b   Paolo, Anthony M ^c   Tröster, Alexander I ^d  

^a School of Medicine ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Action fluency; Elderly; Executive function; Language; Normative data; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LITERATURE; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROANATOMY; NORMAL HUMAN; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 2142732425     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.02.003     Document Type: Article

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