Sentence examples for semantic impairment from inspiring English sources

We designed two hypotheses for this verb deficit: (1) executive impairment drives the deficit; (2) semantic impairment drives the deficit.

The aim of this study was to determine the brain areas responsible for the semantic impairment observed in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) patients.

Ones of the first intriguing set of results came from neuropsychological studies describing patients with category-specific semantic impairment.

Both groups show semantic impairment, but only individuals with prefrontal damage show harmful effects of repetition.

However, another recent study indicates that bilateral anterior temporal damage is required to cause a clinically significant semantic impairment.

Both semantic aphasia and Wernicke's aphasia cases showed multimodal semantic impairment, although as expected, the Wernicke's aphasia group showed greater deficits on auditory-verbal than picture judgements.

It is suggested that action semantic impairments directly tap onto motor disorders.

As semantic processing deficits are considered central to cognitive impairments in schizophrenia, this study aimed to characterize semantic impairments following both acute and chronic ketamine.

Adherents of this type of theory cite examples of category-specific semantic impairments in clinical populations following lesions to the left temporal lobe, illustrating the modality independence of discrepancies in the semantic network.

We present a case-series comparison of patients with cross-modal semantic impairments consequent on either (a) bilateral anterior temporal lobe atrophy in semantic dementia (SD) or (b) left-hemisphere fronto-parietal and/or posterior temporal stroke in semantic aphasia (SA).

In addition, semantic decision increased activation in (i) left ventral inferior frontal cortex (BA 47), right cerebellum, and paracingulate, which have all previously been implicated in executive functions, and (ii) a ventral region in the left anterior temporal pole which is commonly affected in patients with semantic impairments.