Semantic interference during object naming in agrammatic and logopenic primary progressive aphasia (PPA)

Brain and Language

Volumn 120, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 237-250

  Thompson, Cynthia K ^a   Cho, Soojin ^a   Price, Charis ^a   Wieneke, Christina ^a   Bonakdarpour, Borna ^a   Rogalski, Emily ^a   Weintraub, Sandra ^a,b   Mesulam, M Marsel ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cortical thickness; FreeSurfer; Naming deficits in primary progressive aphasia; Primary progressive aphasia; Semantic interference; Word interference paradigms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANOMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX ATROPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MENTAL TASK; OBJECT NAMING; PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE APHASIA; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RESPONSE TIME; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; ANOMIA; APHASIA, BROCA; APHASIA, PRIMARY PROGRESSIVE; ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CEREBRAL CORTEX; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS;

EID: 84858005940     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.11.003     Document Type: Article

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