Is action naming better preserved (than object naming) in Alzheimer's disease and why should we ask?

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 332-340

  Druks, Judit ^a   Masterson, Jackie ^b   Kopelman, Michael ^c   Clare, Linda ^d   Rose, Anita ^d   Rai, Gucharan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e WHITTINGTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's dementia; Noun verb differences; Object and action naming

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; APHASIA; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33747892466     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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