Relearning and subsequent forgetting of semantic category exemplars in a case of semantic dementia

Neuropsychology

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 359-380

  Graham, Kim S ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Pratt, Katherine H ^b   Hodges, John R ^b  

^a MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOMIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; WORD RECOGNITION;

APHASIA; BRAIN; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0032815394     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.13.3.359     Document Type: Article

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