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De Smedt, B.; Swillen, A.; Devriendt, K.; Fryns, J. P.; Verschaffel, L.; Ghesquiere, P. – Neuropsychologia, 2007
Current neurocognitive theories of number processing [Dehaene, S., Piazza, M., Pinel, P., & Cohen, L. (2003). Three parietal circuits for number processing. "Cognitive Neuropsychology," 20, 487-506] state that mathematical performance is made possible by two functionally and anatomically distinct subsystems of number processing: a verbal system…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, Children, Brain, Neurological Organization
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Sidiropoulos, Kyriakos; de Bleser, Ria; Ackermann, Hermann; Preilowski, Bruno – Neuropsychologia, 2008
At the level of clinical speech/language evaluation, the repetition type of conduction aphasia is characterized by repetition difficulties concomitant with reduced short-term memory capacities, in the presence of fluent spontaneous speech as well as unimpaired naming and reading abilities. It is still unsettled which dysfunctions of the…
Descriptors: Speech, Psycholinguistics, Phonemes, Aphasia
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Pitel, Anne Lise; Beaunieux, Helene; Guillery-Girard, Berengere; Witkowski, Thomas; de la Sayette, Vincent; Viader, Fausto; Desgranges, Beatrice; Eustache, Francis – Neuropsychologia, 2009
The goal of the present investigation was to assess semantic learning in Korsakoff patients (KS), compared with uncomplicated alcoholics (AL) and control subjects (CS), taking the nature of the information to-be-learned and the episodic memory profiles of the three groups into account. Ten new complex concepts, each illustrated by a photo and…
Descriptors: Semantics, Patients, Short Term Memory, Recall (Psychology)