Some characteristics of verbal behaviour in presenile dementia.
Two experiments concerned with the statistical characteristics of speech in presenile dementia are described. Apart from a lowered rate of production of words under certain conditions no speech abnormalities were detected on the variables examined.
D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007257:Information Theory; D008875:Middle Aged; D011930:Reaction Time; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013997:Time Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior; D014825:Vocabulary