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- From: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu (Joseph T. Devlin)
- Newsgroups: sci.cognitive
- Subject: Alzheimer's disease
- Date: 22 Nov 1992 15:27:12 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- Summary: Any effect of verb semantics?
- Keywords: verbs, semantics, alzheimers
-
- Hello all,
- I've been looking into the literature on Alzheimer's
- disease to see what is known about the affect of the
- disease on verb semantics and lexical access. While
- there is a substantial body of information on noun and
- object degradation in AD, I have found only a single
- reference which even examined verbs - action verbs only
- in this case.
- Martin and Fedio (1983) reported that AD patients were
- as capable of naming simple action verbs as their normal
- counterparts from line drawings. Contrasted with object
- naming, which AD patients do fairly poorly at, this was
- perhaps surprising. On the other hand this was only
- a small part of a larger experiment and it was not treated
- in any detail.
- If anyone knows of references or informatoin related to
- this I would appreciate hearing from you.
- Thank you all for your help.
-
- - Joe
-
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- Joseph Devlin * email: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu
- University of Southern California *
- Department of Computer Science * "The axon doesn't think.
- Los Angeles, CA 90089 * It just ax." George Bishop
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- %A Martin and Fedio
- %T <I can't find the name of the paper right now>
- %S Brain and Language (1983) 19: 124-141.
-