The selective preservation of colour naming in semantic dementia.
This paper documents a series of seven patients with semantic dementia who showed a selective preservation in colour naming. This was in the context of a pervasive impairment in naming nouns across a wide range of other semantic categories. To our knowledge, this is the first series of patients with semantic dementia documenting a selective preservation of colour naming. These findings are discussed in the light of current theoretical accounts of category-specific effects and the possible contribution of imageability to this selective preservation of colours.
Robinson
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Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. G.Robinson@ion.ucl.ac.uk
Cipolotti
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L
D000368:Aged; D000849:Anomia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001284:Atrophy / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003704:Dementia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology