Agnosic or semantic impairment in very mild Alzheimer's disease?

Aging, Neuropsychology, and Cognition

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 230-253

  Goudour, Amandine ^a,b   Samson, Séverine ^b   Bakchine, Serge ^a   Ehrlé, Nathalie ^a,b  

^a REIMS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

Agnosia; Alzheimer's disease; Category specific; Object recognition; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; PHOTOSTIMULATION; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 79952292689     PISSN: 13825585     EISSN: 17444128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13825585.2010.540643     Document Type: Article

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