Semantic relations and Alzheimer's disease: an early and disproportionate deficit in functional knowledge.
Semantic relations and Alzheimer's disease: an early and disproportionate deficit in functional knowledge.
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语义关系和阿尔茨海默病:功能知识的早期和不成比例的缺陷。
DOI:
10.1017/s1355617700000709
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发表时间:
1995
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通讯作者:
Hermann,AM
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作者:
Johnson,MK;Hermann,AM
This experiment explored knowledge of four types of semantic relations (superordinate category, part, property, and function) in Alzheimer's disease (AD) subjects and age- and education-matched controls. Moderate AD subjects showed the greatest disruption on functional relations, intermediate disruption on part and property relations, and the least disruption on category relations; mild AD subjects showed a similar pattern but significant deficits only on functions. We suggest that the disproportionate deficit on functions reflects a greater cognitive complexity of functions than other semantic relations that renders them more vulnerable either to disrupted processing or to structural degradation of the network of associations among semantic concepts. (JINS, 1995, 1, 568–574.)