Motor knowledge is one dimension for concept organization: Further evidence from a Chinese semantic dementia case

Brain and Language

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 110-118

  Lin, Nan ^a   Guo, Qihao ^b   Han, Zaizhu ^a   Bi, Yanchao ^a  

^a BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Concepts; Grammatical dissociation; Motor knowledge; Semantic category specific deficit; Semantic dementia; Semantic features

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHINESE; COMPREHENSION; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTOR KNOWLEDGE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PREDICTION; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL LOBE ATROPHY; WORD RECOGNITION;

AGED; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE;

EID: 80052662334     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2010.07.001     Document Type: Article

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