Preservation of person-specific semantic knowledge in semantic dementia: does direct personal experience have a specific role?

Preservation of person-specific semantic knowledge in semantic dementia: does direct personal experience have a specific role?

Semantic dementia patients seem to have better knowledge of information linked to the self. More specifically, despite having severe semantic impairment, these patients show that they have more general information about the people they know personally by direct experience than they do about other in...

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Main Authors: Julie Anne Péron, Pascale ePiolino, Sandrine eLe Moal-Boursiquot, Isabelle eBiseul, Emmanuelle eLeray, Laetitia eBon, Béatrice eDesgranges, Francis eEustache, Serge eBelliard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-11-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
autobiographical memory
Semantic memory
Semantic Dementia
personal experience
Famous names
personally familiar names
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2015.00625/full

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