Naming deficit for non-living items: Neuropsychological and PET study

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 359-367

  Caterina Silveri, Maria ^a   Gainotti, Guido ^a   Perani, Daniela ^c   Jee Yun Cappelletti, ^c   Carbone, Gabriele ^b   Fazio, Ferruccio ^c  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Piazza San Bartolomeo All'Isola 21   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anomia; Category specific deficit; PET

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN METABOLISM; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NOMENCLATURE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ANOMIA; ATROPHY; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 0343471401     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(96)00084-X     Document Type: Article

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