Computational Modeling of Reading in Semantic Dementia: Comment on Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson (2007)

Psychological Review

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 256-271

  Coltheart, Max ^a   Tree, Jeremy J ^b   Saunders, Steven J ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

computational modeling; dual route model; reading; semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; READING;

FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); READING;

EID: 74049135381     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0015948     Document Type: Article

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