Sensory-specific anomic aphasia following left occipital lesions: Data from free oral descriptions of concrete word meanings
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Sensory-specific anomic aphasia following left occipital lesions: Data from free oral descriptions of concrete word meanings
The present study investigated hierarchical lexical semantic structure in oral descriptions of concrete word meanings produced by a subject (ZZ) diagnosed with anomic aphasia due to left occipital lesions. The focus of the analysis was production of a) nouns at different levels of semantic specificity (e.g., "robin"-"bird"-"animal") and b) words describing sensory or motor experiences (e.g., "b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurocase
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1355-4794,1465-3656
DOI: 10.1080/13554794.2012.741258