Multilingual naming test in alzheimer's disease: Clues to the origin of naming impairments

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 272-283

  Ivanova, Iva ^a   Salmon, David P ^b   Gollan, Tamar H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual index scores; Bilingualism; Contextual diversity; Frequency; Imageability; Keywords Picture naming; Language dominance; Number of senses

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875159286     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: 14697661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617712001282     Document Type: Article

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