Effects of semantic impairment on language processing in semantic dementia

Seminars in Speech and Language

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 32-43

  Reilly, Jamie ^a,b   Peelle, Jonathan E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Dementia; Language; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; DEMENTIA; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; SPEECH THERAPY; TEMPORAL CORTEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; ATROPHY; DEMENTIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; MEMORY DISORDERS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 45149104102     PISSN: 07340478     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2008-1061623     Document Type: Article

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