Influence of conceptual knowledge on visual object discrimination: Insights from semantic dementia and MTL amnesia

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2568-2582

  Barense, Morgan D ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b   Bussey, Timothy J ^c,d   Saksida, Lisa M ^c,d   Graham, Kim S ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UK   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^e CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

declarative memory; frontotemporal dementia; perception; perirhinal cortex; semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBIGUITY; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGED; AMNESIA; ATROPHY; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 77957824519     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq004     Document Type: Article

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