Distinctive semantic features in the healthy adult brain.

The role of semantic features, which are distinctive (e.g., a zebra's stripes) or shared (e.g. has four legs) for accessing a concept, has been studied in detail in early neurodegenerative disease such as semantic dementia (SD). However, potential neural underpinnings of such processing have not bee...

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Publicado en:Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 296 - 309
Autores principales: Reilly, Megan, Machado, Natalya, Blumstein, Sheila E.
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Springer Nature Apr2019
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