Are judgments of semantic relatedness systematically impaired in Alzheimer's disease?

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3084-3094

  Hornberger, M ^a,b   Bell, B ^c   Graham, K S ^b,d   Rogers, T T ^b,e  

^a NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Multidimensional scaling; Semantic memory; Semantic specificity; Triadic comparison task

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSITIVITY AND SENSIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; JUDGMENT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SEMANTICS;

EID: 70350380191     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.006     Document Type: Article

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