Impaired word recognition in Alzheimer's disease: The role of age of acquisition

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3329-3334

  Cuetos, Fernando ^a   Herrera, Elena ^a   Ellis, Andrew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Alzheimer's disease; Dementia; Lexical decision; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77955846137     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.07.017     Document Type: Article

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