Gender-related dissociations of categorical fluency in normal subjects and in subjects with Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 207-211

  Marra, Camillo ^a,b   Ferraccioli, Monica ^a   Gainotti, Guido ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b FONDAZIONE POLICLINICO UNIVERSITARIO A GEMELLI IRCCS   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Category specificity; Gender related familiarity; Semantic fluency

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUTHOR; BIRD; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; FEMALE; FURNITURE; GENDER; LITERATURE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SEX; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STIMULUS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANOMIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34247388882     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.21.2.207     Document Type: Article

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