Premorbid expertise produces category-specific impairment in a domain-general semantic disorder

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 3213-3223

  Jefferies, Elizabeth ^a   Rogers, Timothy T ^b   Ralph, Matthew A Lambon ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anterior temporal lobe; Category specific; Expertise; Individual differences; Semantic dementia; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL CAPACITY; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; RECALL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS;

AGED; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SEMANTICS;

EID: 80053584839     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.07.024     Document Type: Article

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