Unpicking the semantic impairment in Alzheimer's disease: Qualitative changes with disease severity

Behavioural Neurology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-34

  Corbett, Faye ^a   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^b   Burns, Alistair ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

access; Alzheimer's disease; semantic; severity; storage

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ATTENTION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; KNOWLEDGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS CONTROL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84855250480     PISSN: 09534180     EISSN: 18758584     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/BEN-2012-0346     Document Type: Conference Paper

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