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Direct linkDiaz, Michael; Sailor, Kevin; Cheung, Doris; Kuslansky, Gail – Brain and Language, 2004
Many studies have found that patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) perform significantly worse than normal controls on verbal fluency tasks. Moreover, some studies have found that AD patients' deficits compared to controls are more severe for semantic fluency (e.g., vegetables) than for letter fluency (e.g. words that begin with F). These…
Descriptors: Effect Size, Semantics, Language Fluency, Graphemes
