Right anterior temporal lobe atrophy and person-based semantic defect: A detailed case study

Neurocase

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 485-508

  Busigny, Thomas ^a   Robaye, Laurence ^b   Dricot, Laurence ^a   Rossion, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF MONT GODINNE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Face processing; FTLD; Person based semantic defect; Progressive prosopagnosia; Right temporal lobe atrophy; Semantic dementia

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; COMPULSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EPISODIC MEMORY; FACE INVERSION EFFECT; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMAN; IRRITABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LOGORRHEA; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERSONALITY; PROSOPAGNOSIA; RIGHT TEMPORAL POLE VARIANT OF FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; TIME PERCEPTION; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; WORKING MEMORY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BRAIN; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FACE; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS;

EID: 74749084657     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: 14653656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554790902971141     Document Type: Article

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