Semantic dementia (SD), one of the main clinical variants of frontotemporal dementia,
presents a unique combination of clinical and imaging abnormalities. We describe the …

One of the most provocative and exciting issues in cognitive science is how neural specificity
for semantic categories of common objects arises in the functional architecture of the brain …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Wernicke (1900, as cited in GH Eggert, 1977) suggested that semantic knowledge arises
from the interaction of perceptual representations of objects and words. The authors present …

Seven trends regarding the categories that tend to be impaired/preserved in category-
specific semantic deficits were identified. The authors hypothesized that these trends arise …

In this study we provide a critical review of the clinical evidence available to date in the field
of semantic category-specific deficits. The motivation for undertaking this review is that not …

The development of cholinergic therapies for Alzheimer's disease (AD) has highlighted the
importance of understanding the role of attentional deficits and the relationship between …

Questions about the organization of conceptual knowledge in the human brain can be
addressed by studying patients with category-specific semantic deficits: disproportionate …

Category-specific impairments of object recognition and naming are among the most
intriguing disorders in neuropsychology, affecting the retrieval of knowledge about either …

OBJECTIVE To test the hypotheses that visuoperceptual and attentional ability are
disproportionately impaired in patients having dementia with Lewy Bodies (DLB) compared …