Some is not enough: Quantifier comprehension in corticobasal syndrome and behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 3532-3541

  Morgan, Brianna ^a   Gross, Rachel G ^a   Clark, Robin ^a   Dreyfuss, Michael ^a   Boller, Ashley ^a   Camp, Emily ^a   Liang, Tsao Wei ^b   Avants, Brian ^a   McMillan, Corey T ^a   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Corticobasal; Frontal; Frontotemporal dementia; Parietal; Quantifier

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOBASAL SYNDROME; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FRONTAL VARIANT FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GRAY MATTER; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TEMPORAL PARIETAL ATROPHY; VISUAL STIMULATION; VOXEL BASED MORPHOMETRY;

AGED; ATROPHY; BASAL GANGLIA; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LOGIC; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 80755132112     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.09.005     Document Type: Article

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