Dissociating person-specific from general semantic knowledge: Roles of the left and right temporal lobes

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 359-370

  Thompson, Siân A ^a   Graham, Kim S ^b   Williams, Guy ^a   Patterson, Karalyn ^b   Kapur, Narinder ^c   Hodges, John R ^a,b  

^a ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

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

^c SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dementia; Face processing; Memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISSOCIATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HANDEDNESS; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFORMANCE; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 0344688135     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2003.08.004     Document Type: Article

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