Memoria semántica y fluidez verbal en demencias

Semantic category fluency is considered one of the most sensitive measures of incipient dementia. Although it has been suggested that verbal fluency declines with age, it is not well known whether the patterns of change / impairment in verbal fluency in dementia are qualitatively different than those observed in normal aging. The present study addresses this question using a task that explores semantic category fluency in three groups of subjects:

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