Assessment of verbal and visuospatial working memory in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's dementia

In addition to episodic memory impairment, working memory may also be compromised in mild cognitive impairment (MCI) or Alzheimer's dementia (AD), but standard verbal and visuospatial span tasks do not always detect impairments. Objective: To examine whether more complex verbal and visuospatia...

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Main Authors: Roy P.C. Kessels, Anouk Overbeek, Zita Bouman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Neurologia Cognitiva e do Comportamento
Series:Dementia & Neuropsychologia
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1980-57642015000300301&lng=en&tlng=en