A progressive category-specific semantic deficit for non-living things

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-82

  Moss, H E ^a   Tyler, L K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Concepts; Correlation; Naming; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEMORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RECALL;

AGED; ANOMIA; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL RECALL; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0033991130     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(99)00044-5     Document Type: Article

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