Reduced short-term memory capacity in Alzheimer's disease: The role of phonological, lexical, and semantic processing

Memory

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 341-350

  Caza, Nicole ^a,b   Belleville, Sylvie ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATIVE MEMORY; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEMANTICS; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH ARTICULATION; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 42549093033     PISSN: 09658211     EISSN: 14640686     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09658210701881758     Document Type: Article

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