The role of polarity in antonym and synonym conceptual knowledge: Evidence from stroke aphasia and multidimensional ratings of abstract words

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2636-2644

  Crutch, Sebastian J ^a,b   Williams, Paul ^b   Ridgway, Gerard R ^a   Borgenicht, Laura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NORTHWICK PARK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antonym; Association; Conceptual knowledge; Semantics; Similarity; Synonym

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ACTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTONYM; APHASIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; POLARITY; QUANTITY; SEMANTICS; SENSATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPACE; STROKE; SYNONYM; TASK PERFORMANCE; THINKING; TIME; VERBALIZATION; WRITTEN LANGUAGE;

AGED; APHASIA; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84865549086     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.07.015     Document Type: Article

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