A semantic contribution to nonword recall? Evidence for intact phonological processes in semantic dementia

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 183-212

  Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a,d   Jones, Roy W ^b   Bateman, David ^c   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b St Martin's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL UNITED HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DYSLEXIA; EAR; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL ORIENTATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 15544388993     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290442000068     Document Type: Article

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