Lexical factors and cerebral regions influencing verbal fluency performance in MCI

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 98-111

  Clark, D G ^a,b   Wadley, V G ^c   Kapur, P ^d   DeRamus, T P ^b   Singletary, B ^e   Nicholas, A P ^a,b   Blanton, P D ^a   Lokken, K ^a   Deshpande, H ^b   Marson, D ^b   Deutsch, G ^b  

^a BIRMINGHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Mild cognitive impairment; Natural language processing; Semantic memory; Verbal fluency

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; OCCIPITAL GYRUS; PHONEME; PREDICTION; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL FLUENCY; WORD RECOGNITION;

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; SEMANTIC MEMORY; VERBAL FLUENCY;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BRAIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NERVE FIBERS, UNMYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORGAN SIZE; PHONETICS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84892463905     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.12.010     Document Type: Article

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