Auditory word-form recognition was originally proposed by Wernicke to occur within left
superior temporal gyrus (STG), later further specified to be in posterior STG. To account for …

The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive
neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD) …

The second edition of this comprehensive textbook for students of Neuropsychology gives a
thorough overview of the complex relationship between brain and behaviour. With an …

Semantic memory is a crucial higher cortical function that codes the meaning of objects and
words, and when impaired after neurological damage, patients are left with significant …

Aphasia is an acquired impairment in the production or comprehension of language,
typically caused by left hemisphere stroke. The subtyping framework used in clinical …

Humans process the meaning of the world via both verbal and nonverbal modalities. It has
been established that widely distributed cortical regions are involved in semantic …

One-third of stroke survivors experience deficits in word retrieval as a core characteristic of
their aphasia, which is frustrating, socially limiting and disabling for their professional and …

Comprehension deficits are common in stroke aphasia, including in cases with (i) semantic
aphasia, characterized by poor executive control of semantic processing across verbal and …

Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or
traumatic brain injury, that affects a person's ability to communicate effectively. The aim of …

Objective To explore atrophy–deficit correlations of word comprehension and repetition in
temporoparietal cortices encompassing the Wernicke area, based on patients with primary …