Estimation of premorbid cognitive function based on word knowledge: The Swedish Lexical Decision Test (SLDT)

Scandinavian Journal of Psychology

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 271-279

  Almkvist, O ^a,b   Adveen, M ^a   Henning, L ^c   Tallberg, I M ^c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c Division of Logopedics and Phoniatrics ^*  (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cognitive function; Lexical decision; Premorbid

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; REFERENCE VALUE; STATISTICS; SWEDEN;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REFERENCE VALUES; SWEDEN;

EID: 34249077852     PISSN: 00365564     EISSN: 14679450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9450.2007.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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