Background: The potential differential impact of Alzheimer's disease (AD) across semantic
categories/domains (ie, living/nonliving) has been debated extensively in the past 30 years …

A meta-analysis of 153 studies with 15,990 participants was conducted to compare the
magnitude of deficits upon tests of phonemic and semantic fluency for patients with …

In Alzheimer's dementia (AD), greater declines in semantic fluency (SF) relative to letter
fluency (LF) have been assumed to reflect semantic disintegration. However, the same …

Background Worse semantic than letter fluency performance is a clinical marker of
Alzheimer's disease (AD), but the longitudinal course of performance on these tasks in pre …

Category specific semantic impairment (eg living versus nonliving things) has been reported
in association with various pathologies, including herpes simplex encephalitis and semantic …

A category specific effect in naming tasks has been reported in patients with Alzheimer's
dementia. Nonetheless, naming tasks are frequently affected by methodological problems …

Semantic fluency is widely used both as a clinical test and as a basic tool for understanding
how humans extract information from the semantic store. Recently, major efforts have been …

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 …

Background: Categorisation abilities, as measured by word fluency, have been observed to
deteriorate in dementia of the Alzheimer's type (DAT). Specifically, patients with early …

Background: Several studies indicate semantic fluency more sensitively discriminates
patients with Alzheimer disease (AD) from normal elderly persons, with disproportionate …