Abstract
We tested the ability of Alzheimer's patients and elderly controls to name living and non-living nouns, and manner and instrument verbs. Patients' error patterns and relative performance with different categories showed evidence of graceful degradation for both nouns and verbs, with particular domain-specific impairments for living nouns and instrument verbs. Our results support feature-based, semantic representations for nouns and verbs and support the role of inter-correlated features in noun impairment, and the role of noun knowledge in instrument verb impairment.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 8-19 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Brain and Language |
| Volume | 111 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Oct 1 2009 |
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Keywords
- Alzheimer's
- Category specific impairments
- Nouns
- Picture naming
- Semantic impairments
- Verbs
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Speech and Hearing
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A common mechanism in verb and noun naming deficits in Alzheimer's patients. / Almor, Amit; Aronoff, Justin M.; MacDonald, Maryellen C.; Gonnerman, Laura M.; Kempler, Daniel; Hintiryan, Houri; Hayes, Un Ja L.; Arunachalam, Sudha; Andersen, Elaine S.
In: Brain and Language, Vol. 111, No. 1, 01.10.2009, p. 8-19.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Hintiryan, Houri
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AU - Arunachalam, Sudha
AU - Andersen, Elaine S.
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