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Sensory-specific anomic aphasia following left occipital lesions: Data from free oral descriptions of concrete word meanings

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Summary, in English

The present study investigated hierarchical lexical semantic structure in oral descriptions of concrete word meanings produced by a subject (ZZ) diagnosed with anomic aphasia due to left occipital lesions. The focus of the analysis was production of a) nouns at different levels of semantic specificity (e.g., "robin"-"bird"-"animal") and b) words describing sensory or motor experiences (e.g., "blue," "soft," "fly"). Results show that in contrast to healthy and aphasic controls, who produced words at all levels of specificity and mainly vision-related sensory information, ZZ produced almost exclusively nouns at the most non-specific levels and words associated with sound and movement.

Publishing year

2014

Language

English

Pages

192-207

Publication/Series

Neurocase

Volume

20

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Neurology

Status

Published

Project

  • Abstract, emotional and concrete words in the mental lexicon
  • Thinking in Time: Cognition, Communication and Learning

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1465-3656