Category specific semantic loss in dementia of Alzheimer's type. Functional-anatomical correlations from cross-sectional analyses
Male
Analysis of Variance
Memory Disorders
Brain
Semantics
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
Cross-Sectional Studies
0302 clinical medicine
Alzheimer Disease
Memory
Reference Values
Disease Progression
Humans
Female
Longitudinal Studies
Artifacts
Cognition Disorders
Aged
Language
Probability
DOI:
10.1093/brain/121.4.633
Publication Date:
2002-07-26T22:45:55Z
AUTHORS (1)
ABSTRACT
In the context of focal brain injury, selective loss of semantic knowledge in the domain of either natural kinds or artefacts is usually considered to reflect the differential importance of temporal and frontoparietal regions to the representations of perceptual and functional attributes, respectively. It is harder to account far as a feature of a more diffuse process, and previous cross-sectional analyses of patients with dementia of Alzheimer's type (DAT) have differed over whether category effects occur. In our series of 58 patients with probable DAT, we demonstrated a significant group advantage for artefacts, and explored possible reasons for the inconsistency of this finding in other studies. A multiple single-case strategy revealed not only individuals with consistent advantages for artefacts but also individuals with consistent advantages for natural kinds. By ranking the individuals according to measures of naming performance and global intellectual ability, we showed that the strength of the group advantage for artefacts was dependent on the former but not the latter variable. The findings are discussed in the context of two competing theories of semantic breakdown in DAT. One differentiates between domains of knowledge in terms of the structure of semantic representations within a single distributed network; the other emphasizes the importance of different brain regions in the category distinction. We conclude that our findings are in keeping with the predictions of the latter hypothesis.
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