Deficits on irregular verbal morphology in Italian-speaking Alzheimer's disease patients

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1245-1255

  Walenski, Matthew ^a,d   Sosta, Katiuscia ^b   Cappa, Stefano ^c   Ullman, Michael T ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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

^c VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Declarative memory; Irregular morphology; Italian; Morphology

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 61849136728     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.038     Document Type: Article

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