Preserved tool knowledge in the context of impaired action knowledge: Implications for models of semantic memory

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Garcea, Frank E ^a   Dombovy, Mary ^b   Mahon, Bradford Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b Unity Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; EVOKED MUSCLE RESPONSE; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; KNOWLEDGE; LINGUISTICS; LONG TERM MEMORY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLINGUISTIC ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE PROCESSING IN APHASIA; REVISED STANDARDIZED DIFFERENCE TEST; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION;

EID: 84933671256     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00120     Document Type: Article

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