Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1207-1215

  Bozeat, Sasha ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Garrard, Peter ^b   Hodges, John R ^a,b  

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

^b ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Frontotemporal dementia; Non verbal comprehension; Progressive fluent aphasia; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DETERIORATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; MEMORY; PERFORMANCE; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SKILL;

APHASIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; NERVE NET; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PICK DISEASE OF THE BRAIN; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0034257145     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00034-8     Document Type: Article

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