Although semantic dementia (SD) is defined as a selective disruption of conceptual
knowledge, a number of group studies have now demonstrated that SD patients also show …

We describe our investigations of MNA, who had a progressive, severe and global loss of
semantic knowledge (semantic dementia). Her verbal vocabulary was restricted to a few …

This chapter addresses itself to several issues. In doing so, it emphasises a relationship
between dysnomia and dyslexia. The behaviour of the patient reported was consistent with a …

This paper reports a case study of acquired surface alexia in Spanish and discusses the
most suitable tests to detect this syndrome in a writing system that is very regular for reading …

We report a patient (FBI) in whom a category specific deep dyslexia was demonstrated. The
patient was globally dysphasic with dyslexia and dysgraphia, and his dyslexic syndrome …

In this paper we describe dissociations of implicit versus explicit access to semantic
information in a patient with deep dyslexia. This acquired reading disorder is characterized …

Background: Adult oral reading in consistent orthographies, like Spanish, is argued to
proceed through sublexical spelling-to-sound conversion. Hence, it was surprising that …

The co-occurrence of semantic impairment and surface dyslexia in the semantic variant of
primary progressive aphasia (svPPA) has often been taken as supporting evidence for the …

We investigated six patients with progressive focal dementia or progressive aphasia, who
showed impairments in knowledge of word meaning ranging from moderate to very severe …