Impaired semantic knowledge underlies the reduced verbal short-term storage capacity in Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3067-3073

  Peters, Frédéric ^a   Majerus, Steve ^a,c   De Baerdemaeker, Julie ^a   Salmon, Eric ^a,b,c   Collette, Fabienne ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c FUND FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Concreteness; Normal aging; Verbal short term memory; Word imageability

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD LIST RECALL;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; JUDGMENT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70350398070     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.002     Document Type: Article

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