Broadly speaking: Vocabulary in semantic dementia shifts towards general, semantically diverse words

Cortex

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 30-42

  Hoffman, Paul ^a   Meteyard, Lotte ^b   Patterson, Karalyn ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptual knowledge; Latent semantic analysis; Semantic diversity; Semantic memory; Spontaneous speech

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SIMULATION; SPEECH ANALYSIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; MEMORY DISORDER; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; SPEECH DISORDERS;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; SEMANTICS; SPEECH DISORDERS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84901436428     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2012.11.004     Document Type: Article

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