Frontal lobe damage impairs process and content in semantic memory: Evidence from category-specific effects in progressive non-fluent aphasia

Cortex

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 645-658

  Reilly, Jamie ^a   Rodriguez, Amy D ^a   Peelle, Jonathan E ^b   Grossman, Murray ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specificity; Embodied cognition; Naming; Naming errors; Progressive non fluent aphasia; Semantic categories; Semantic memory; Semantic retrieval

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; MALE; PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATROPHY; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE NONFLUENT APHASIA; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79954632128     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.05.005     Document Type: Article

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