Differential impacts of age of acquisition on letter and semantic fluency in Alzheimer's disease patients and healthy older adults

Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology

Volumn 64, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2383-2391

  Sailor, Kevin M ^a   Zimmerman, Molly E ^b   Sanders, Amy E ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age of acquisition; Alzheimer's disease; Language production; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857095100     PISSN: 17470218     EISSN: 17470226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2011.596660     Document Type: Article

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