Associative and Orthographic Neighborhood Density Effects in Normal Aging and Alzheimer's Disease

Neuropsychology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 759-764

  Duñabeitia, Jon Andoni ^a   Marín, Alejandro ^a   Carreiras, Manuel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

^b BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 72149084619     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016616     Document Type: Article

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