Frontotemporal neural systems supporting semantic processing in Alzheimer's disease

Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-48

  Peelle, Jonathan E ^a,b   Powers, John ^a   Cook, Philip A ^a   Smith, Edward E ^c   Grossman, Murray ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Prefrontal cortex; Semantics

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYELINATED NERVE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANISOTROPY; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FIBERS, MYELINATED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84897523223     PISSN: 15307026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13415-013-0239-6     Document Type: Article

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