Lexical decision was also intact, indicating impairment in semantic knowledge of vocabulary rather than absence of lexical representations.
Patients with early-onset chronic temporal lobe epilepsy demonstrate impairments in semantic knowledge regardless of whether the seizure focus is left- or right-lateralized (Bell et al., 2001).
To test if the observed difference in sensitivity to devaluation following extended training was the result of impairments in contingency knowledge in the OCD group, we tested subjects' awareness of explicit associative contingencies.
Individuals diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) show significant impairments in social knowledge, difficulties in pragmatic communication, and social deficits in behavior and activities [Fine, Bartolucci, Ginsberg, & Szatmari, 1991 ], overshadowing language delay in syntactic or structural linguistic knowledge [Baron-Cohen, 2005; Geurts & Embrechts, 2008 ].
In the original accounts, Harlow did not report whether Gage showed impairment in naming or semantic knowledge.
The last remaining and most frontal region of the network was the left mFG, a region consistently implicated in the representation of skilled action and associated with impairments in skilled tool knowledge and ideomotor apraxia when lesioned (Haaland et al. 2000; Goldenberg and Spatt 2009).
Together, these factors have led to rapid accumulation of knowledge about visual impairment in optic neuritis and multiple sclerosis.
Despite an increase in knowledge about the epidemiology of intimate partner violence (IPV), much less is known about interventions to reduce IPV and its associated impairment.
Examine your team for gaps in knowledge.
