Structurally well-formed narrative production in the face of severe conceptual deterioration: A longitudinal case study of a woman with semantic dementia

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-177

  Kavé, Gitit ^a   Leonard, Carol ^b   Cupit, Jennifer ^c   Rochon, Elizabeth ^c,d  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Language production; Lexical semantics; Semantic dementia; Verb knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; DEMENTIA; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; SPEECH;

EID: 33846293308     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2006.06.003     Document Type: Article

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