Neural basis of category-specific semantic deficits for living things: Evidence from semantic dementia, HSVE and a neural network model

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1127-1137

  Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a   Lowe, Christine ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specific disorders; Herpes simplex virus encephalitis; PDP neural network models; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory disorders

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NEUROSCIENCE; PATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; APHASIA; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BRAIN INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECALL; RECOGNITION;

APHASIA; BRAIN INJURIES; COHORT STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEMENTIA; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 34249676175     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awm025     Document Type: Article

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