Personal experience and arithmetic meaning in semantic dementia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 278-287

  Julien, Camille L ^a,b   Neary, David ^a,c   Snowden, Julie S ^a,c  

^a SALFORD ROYAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arithmetic; Autobiographical memory; Conceptual knowledge; Number knowledge; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; TELEVISION VIEWING;

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 71549114536     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.09.014     Document Type: Article

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