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.
Department of Clinical Neuropsychology, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK. G.Robinson@ion.ucl.ac.uk
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