A common mechanism in verb and noun naming deficits in Alzheimer’s patients

We tested the ability of Alzheimer’s patients and elderly controls to name living and non-living nouns, and manner and instrument verbs. Patients’ error patterns and relative performance with different categories showed evidence of graceful degradation for both nouns and verbs, with particular domai...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Brain and language 2009-10, Vol.111 (1), p.8-19
Hauptverfasser:	Almor, Amit, Aronoff, Justin M., MacDonald, Maryellen C., Gonnerman, Laura M., Kempler, Daniel, Hintiryan, Houri, Hayes, UnJa L., Arunachalam, Sudha, Andersen, Elaine S.
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Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult and adolescent clinical studies Aged Aged, 80 and over Alzheimer Disease - physiopathology Alzheimers Disease Alzheimer’s Biological and medical sciences Category specific impairments Cognition Disorders - physiopathology Control Groups Degenerative and inherited degenerative diseases of the nervous system. Leukodystrophies. Prion diseases Disorders of higher nervous function. Focal brain diseases. Central vestibular syndrome and deafness. Brain stem syndromes Error Patterns Female Humans Language Disorders - physiopathology Language Processing Male Medical sciences Nervous system (semeiology, syndromes) Neurology Nouns Older Adults Organic mental disorders. Neuropsychology Patients Pattern Recognition, Visual - physiology Picture naming Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry Psychopathology. Psychiatry Reaction Time - physiology Role Semantic impairments Semantics Speech Production Measurement Verbal Behavior - physiology Verbs Vocabulary
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