Reverse concreteness effects are not a typical feature of semantic dementia: Evidence for the hub-and-spoke model of conceptual representation

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2103-2112

  Hoffman, Paul ^a   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

abstract; anterior temporal lobe; concrete; hub and spoke; semantic knowledge

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; ATROPHY; ATTENTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 79960147340     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhq288     Document Type: Article

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