Relearning and retention of verbal labels in a case of semantic dementia

Aphasiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 192-209

  Heredia, Cristina Green ^a   Sage, Karen ^b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^b   Berthier, Marcelo L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÁLAGA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anomia; Generalisation; Maintenance; Relearning; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPULSIVE PERSONALITY DISORDER; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING STYLE; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SPEECH THERAPY; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 60149110482     PISSN: 02687038     EISSN: 14645041     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02687030801942999     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Benton, A. L., Hamsher, K., Varney, N. R. and Spreen, O. (1978) Contributions to neuropsychological assessment: Facial recognition, Oxford University Press, New York
2. Borkowsky, J. G., Benton, A. L. and Spreen, O. (1967) Word fluency and brain damage. Neuropsychologia, 5, pp. 135-140.
3. Bozeat, S., Gregory, C. A., Ralph, M. A. L. and Hodges, J. R. (2000) Which neuropsychiatric and behavioural features distinguish frontal and temporal variants of frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer's disease?. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 69, pp. 178-186.
4. Bozeat, S., Ralph, M. A. L., Patterson, K., Garrard, P. and Hodges, J. R. (2000) Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 38, pp. 1207-1215.
5. Bozeat, S., Ralph, M. A. L., Patterson, K. and Hodges, J. R. (2002) The influence of personal familiarity and context on object use in semantic dementia. Neurocase, 8, pp. 127-134.
6. Cooper, J. E. (1970) The Leyton Obsessional Inventory. Psychological Medicine, 1, pp. 48-64.
7. Davis, C. and Perea, M. (2005) BuscaPalabras: A program for deriving orthographic and phonological neighbourhood statistics and other psycholinguistic indices in Spanish. Behavior Research, Methods, Instruments and Computers, 37, pp. 665-671.
8. Dunn, L. M. and Dunn, L. M. (1997) Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, American Guidance Service, Circle Pines, MN
9. Folstein, M. F., Folstein, S. E. and McHugh, P. R. (1975) Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE). Journal of Psychiatric Research, 12, pp. 189-198.
10. Frattali, C. (2004) An errorless learning approach to treating dysnomia in frontotemporal dementia. Journal of Medical Speech-Language Pathology, 12, pp. XI-XXIV.
11. Graham, K., Patterson, K., Pratt, K. and Hodges, J. (1999) Relearning and subsequent forgetting of semantic category exemplars in a case of semantic dementia. Neuropsychology, 13, pp. 359-380.
12. Graham, K., Patterson, K., Pratt, K. and Hodges, J. (2001) Can repeated exposure to 'forgotten' vocabulary help alleviate word-finding difficulties in semantic dementia? An illustrative case study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 11, pp. 429-454.
13. Hodges, J. R., Patterson, K., Oxbury, S. and Funnel, E. (1992) Progressive fluent aphasia with temporal lobe atrophy. Brain, 115, pp. 1783-1806.
14. Howard, D. and Patterson, K. (1992) Palm Trees and Pyramids, Thames Valley Test Company, Bury St Edmunds, UK
15. Jefferies, E., Jones, R. W., Bateman, D. and Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2005) A semantic contribution to nonwords recall? Evidence for intact phonological processes in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, pp. 183-212.
16. Jefferies, E. and Lambon Ralph, M. A. (2006) Semantic impairment in stroke aphasia vs. semantic dementia: A case-series comparison. Brain, 129, pp. 2132-2147.
17. Jokel, R., Rochon, E. and Leonard, C. (2002) Therapy for anomia in semantic dementia. Brain and Cognition, 49, pp. 241-244.
18. Jokel, R., Rochon, E. and Leonard, C. (2006) Treating anomia in semantic dementia: Improvement, maintenance, or both?. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 16, pp. 241-256.
19. Kaplan, E., Goodglass, H. and Weintraub, S. (1983) Boston Naming Test, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, USA
20. Kay, J., Lesser, R. and Coltheart, M. (1992) Psycholinguistic Assessments of Language Processing in Aphasia (PALPA), Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd, Hove, UK
21. Kertesz, A. (1982) Western Aphasia Battery, Grune & Stratton, New York
22. Kertesz, A., Davidson, W. and Fox, H. (1997) Frontal behavioral inventory: Diagnostic criteria for frontal lobe dementia. Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences, 24, pp. 29-36.
23. Lambon Ralph, M. A. and Howard, D. (2000) Gogi aphasia or semantic dementia? Simulating and assessing poor verbal comprehension in a case of progressive fluent aphasia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, pp. 437-465.
24. Lambon Ralph, M. A., McClelland, J., Patterson, K., Galton, C. J. and Hodges, J. (2001) No right to speak? The relationship between object naming and semantic impairment: Neuropsychological evidence and a computational model. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 13, pp. 341-356.
25. McClelland, J. L., McNaughton, B. L. and O'Reilly, R. (1995) Why there are complementary learning systems in the hippocampus and neocortex: Insights from the successes and failures of connectionist models of learning and memory. Psychological Review, 102, pp. 419-457.
26. McClelland, J. L. and Rogers, T. T. (2003) The parallel distributed processing approach to semantic cognition. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 4, pp. 310-322.
27. Nestor, P. J., Fryer, T. D. and Hodges, J. R. (2006) Declarative memory impairments in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia. Neuroimage, 30, pp. 1010-1020.
28. Osterreith, R. (1995) Complex figure of Rey. Neuropsychological assessment (3rd ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK
29. Pena Casanova, J., Gramunt, N. and Gich Fulla, J. (2004) Tests neuropsicologicos, Masson, Barcelona
30. Patterson, K., Graham, N. and Hodges, J. (1994) The impact of semantic memory loss on phonological representations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 6, pp. 57-69.
31. Patterson, K., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Jefferies, E., Woollams, A., Jones, R. Hodges, J. et al. (2006) 'Pre-semantic' cognition in semantic dementia: Six deficits in search of an explanation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, pp. 169-183.
32. Patterson, K., Okada, S., Suzuki, T., Ijuin, M. and Tatsum, I. (1998) Fragmented words: A case of late-stage progressive aphasia. Neurocase, 4, pp. 219-230.
33. Raven, J. C. (1985) Raven's Progressive Matrices (23rd ed.), H. K. Lewis & Co, London
34. Rogers, T., Lambon Ralph, M. A., Garrard, P., Bozeat, S., McClelland, J. L. Hodges, J. R. et al. (2004) Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: A neuropsychological and computational investigation. Psychological Review, 111, pp. 205-235.
35. Snowden, J. S., Bathgate, D., Varma, A., Blackshaw, A., Gibbons, Z. C. and Neary, D. (2001) Distinct behavioural profiles in frontotemporal dementia and semantic dementia. Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, 70, pp. 323-332.
36. Snowden, J. S., Griffiths, H. L. and Neary, D. (1995) Autobiographical experience and word meaning. Memory, 3, pp. 225-246.
37. Snowden, J. S. and Neary, D. (2002) Relearning of verbal labels in semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 40, pp. 1715-1728.
38. Snowden, J. S., Thompson, J. C. and Neary, D. (2004) Knowledge of famous faces and names in semantic dementia. Brain, 127, pp. 860-872.
39. Valle, F. and Cuetos, F. (1995) EPLA: Evaluacion del procesamiento linguistico en la afasia. Spanish edition: PALPA, Lawrence Erlbaum associates Ltd, Hove, UK
40. Wechsler, D. (1976) WAIS: Escala de Inteligencia de Wechsler para adultos. Adaptacion Espanola, TEA Ediciones S.A, Madrid