Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ678755
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2003
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Access to Knowledge from Pictures but not Words n a Patient with Progressive Fluent Aphasia.
Saffran, Eleanor M.; Coslett, H. Branch; Martin, Nadine; Boronat, Consuelo B.
Language and Cognitive Processes, v18 n5-6 p725-57 Oct-Dec 2003
Presents data from a patient with a progressive fluent aphasia, who exhibited a severe verbal impairment but a relatively preserved access to knowledge from pictures. Argues for a distributed, multi-modality system for semantic memory in which information is stored in different brain regions and in different representational formats. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Aphasia, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Cognitive Processes, Memory, Semantics, Verbal Communication
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Note: Special issue: Conceptual Representation.
