Face-name association learning in early Alzheimer's disease: A comparison of learning methods and their underlying mechanisms

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 343-371

  Bier, Nathalie ^a,d   Van Der Linden, Martial ^b   Gagnon, Lise ^a   Desrosiers, Johanne ^a   Adam, Stéphane ^c   Louveaux, Stéphanie ^a   Saint Mleux, Julie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE OF GERIATRICS OF SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d CSSS SGUI   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Cognitive rehabilitation; Errorless learning; Face name learning; Implicit memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITIVE REHABILITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EXPLICIT MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LEARNING; MALE; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 45749138772     PISSN: 09602011     EISSN: 14640694     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09602010701694723     Document Type: Article

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