"Whose face is this?": Italian norms of naming celebrities

Neurological Sciences

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 315-322

  Bizzozero, I ^a   Lucchelli, F ^b   Saetti, M C ^a   Spinnler, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b Alzheimer's Disease Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

Familiar people processing; Proper name anomia; Proper names

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ITALY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PUBLIC FIGURE; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; STANDARDIZATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE STANDARDS;

EID: 38049049754     PISSN: 15901874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10072-007-0845-6     Document Type: Article

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