Reacquisition of semantic knowledge by errorless learning in a patient with a semantic deficit and anterograde amnesia

Aphasiology

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 447-488

  Léonard, Bénédicte ^a   Pillon, Agnesa ^a   de Partz, Marie Pierre ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOSOGNOSIA; ANTEROGRADE AMNESIA; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EPISODIC MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTIC DEFICIT; SPEECH THERAPY; TASK PERFORMANCE; THERAPEUTIC ERROR; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 45949089565     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030701517198     Document Type: Article

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