"Presemantic" cognition in semantic dementia: Six deficits in search of an explanation

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 169-183

  Patterson, Karalyn ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^b   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^b   Woollams, Anna ^a   Jones, Roy ^c   Hodges, John R ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^a,d  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c St Martin's Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEMENTIA; DRAWING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; VARIANCE; WORD LIST RECALL; WORD RECOGNITION; WRITING;

EID: 33645744590     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2006.18.2.169     Document Type: Article

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