Be concrete to be comprehended: Consistent imageability effects in semantic dementia for nouns, verbs, synonyms and associates

Cortex

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1206-1218

  Hoffman, Paul ^a   Jones, Roy W ^b   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Research Institute for the Care of Older People (RICE)   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Concreteness; Progressive aphasia; Semantic cognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL INFORMATION;

AGED; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL LOBAR DEGENERATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; WORD ASSOCIATION TESTS;

EID: 84876717700     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.05.007     Document Type: Article

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