Category specific semantic loss in dementia of Alzheimer's type - Functional-anatomical correlations from cross-sectional analyses

被引:141
作者
Garrard, P
Patterson, K
Watson, PC
Hodges, JR
机构
[1] MRC, Appl Psychol Unit, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, England
[2] Univ Cambridge, Addenbrookes Hosp, Neurol Unit, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, England
关键词
category specificity; dementia of Alzheimer's type; semantic memory;
D O I
10.1093/brain/121.4.633
中图分类号
R74 [神经病学与精神病学];
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摘要
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 for 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 brit 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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页码:633 / 646
页数:14
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