On Which Abilities Are Category Fluency and Letter Fluency Grounded A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of 53 Alzheimer's Dementia Patients

On Which Abilities Are Category Fluency and Letter Fluency Grounded A Confirmatory Factor Analysis of 53 Alzheimer's Dementia Patients

Background/Aims: In Alzheimer's dementia (AD), letter fluency is less impaired than category fluency. To check whether category fluency and letter fluency depend differently on semantics and attention, 53 mild AD patients were given animal and letter fluency tasks, two semantic tests (the Verba...

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Main Authors: Ilaria Bizzozero, Stefania Scotti, Francesca Clerici, Simone Pomati, Marcella Laiacona, Erminio Capitani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Karger Publishers 2013-05-01
Series:Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra
Subjects:
Attention
Language
Dementia
Verbal fluency
Semantics
Online Access:http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/351418

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