Name agreement, frequency and age of acquisition, but not grammatical class, affect object and action naming in Spanish speaking participants with Alzheimer's disease

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-54

  Rodríguez Ferreiro, Javier ^a   Davies, Robert ^b   González Nosti, María ^a   Barbón, Analía ^a   Cuetos, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Actions; Age of acquisition; Alzheimer; Frequency; Objects; Picture naming

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPAIN; SPEECH;

EID: 56449104758     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2008.05.003     Document Type: Article

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