At the edge of semantic space: The breakdown of coherent concepts in semantic dementia is constrained by typicality and severity but not modality

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2240-2251

  Mayberry, Emily J ^a   Sage, Karen ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; SIX ALTERNATIVE FORCED CHOICE TASK; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE; VENTROLATERAL ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 79960112977     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21582     Document Type: Article

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