Disorders of representation and control in semantic cognition: Effects of familiarity, typicality, and specificity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 220-239

  Rogers, Timothy T ^a,b   Patterson, Karalyn ^a,c   Jefferies, Elizabeth ^d   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^e  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; APHASIA; ARTICLE; BILATERAL ANTERIOR TEMPORAL LOBE ATROPHY; BRAIN ATROPHY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CASE STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION TEST; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEFT HEMISPHERE FRONTO PARIETAL STROKE; LEFT HEMISPHERE POSTERIOR TEMPORAL STROKE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SEMANTIC DEMENTIA; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; BRAIN; CASE REPORT; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECOGNITION; TEMPORAL LOBE;

AGED; APHASIA; BRAIN; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARIETAL LOBE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); TEMPORAL LOBE;

EID: 84944065563     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2015.04.015     Document Type: Article

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