Semantic diversity accounts for the "missing" word frequency effect in stroke aphasia: Insights using a novel method to quantify contextual variability in meaning

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2432-2446

  Hoffman, Paul ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC APHASIA; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; STROKE; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD FREQUENCY;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; APHASIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOLINGUISTICS; SEMANTICS; STROKE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 79960149898     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21614     Document Type: Article

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