Semantic relevance and semantic disorders

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 439-452

  Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Lombardi, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; MODEL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DISORDER; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 1642412974     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/089892904322926773     Document Type: Article

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