A common mechanism in verb and noun naming deficits in Alzheimer's patients

Brain and Language

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 8-19

  Almor, Amit ^a   Aronoff, Justin M ^b   MacDonald, Maryellen C ^c   Gonnerman, Laura M ^d   Kempler, Daniel ^e   Hintiryan, Houri ^b   Hayes, UnJa L ^f   Arunachalam, Sudha ^g   Andersen, Elaine S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^d LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^g NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's; Category specific impairments; Nouns; Picture naming; Semantic impairments; Verbs

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70349306254     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2009.07.009     Document Type: Article

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