Journal
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
Volume 97, Issue 3, Pages 258-265Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.11.001
Keywords
Alzheimer's disease; semantic dementia; primary progressive aphasia; category fluency; letter fluency
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This study examined the impact of various degenerative dementias on access to semantic knowledge and the status of semantic representations. Patients with semantic dementia, primary progressive aphasia, and Alzheimer's disease were compared with elderly controls on tasks of category and letter fluency, with number of words generated, mean lexical frequency and errors recorded. The findings are consistent with the view that category and letter fluency rely on both common and unique cognitive processes. Fluency tasks, with the richness of data obtained, are valuable in distinguishing different dementia syndromes from one another. (c) 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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