The effects of ageing and Alzheimer's disease on semantic and gender priming

Brain

Volumn 127, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2299-2306

  Manenti, Rosa ^a,b   Repetto, Claudia ^a   Bentrovato, Simone ^c   Marcone, Alessandra ^a   Bates, Elizabeth ^d   Cappa, Stefano F ^a  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ageing; Alzheimer's disease; Gender; Priming; Semantics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; NEUROPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 4944224952     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awh264     Document Type: Article

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