Are living and non-living category-specific deficits causally linked to impaired perceptual or associative knowledge? Evidence from a category-specific double dissociation

Neurocase

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 311-338

  Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Howard, David ^b   Nightingale, Gemma ^c   Ellis, Andrew W ^c  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; Category specificity; Dementia of Alzheimer's type; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0031669346     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799808410630     Document Type: Article

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