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ArticleAmerican journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias

Evaluating Semantic Knowledge Through a Semantic Association Task in Individuals With Dementia.

Claudio Luzzatti, Ilaria Mauri, Stefania Castiglioni, Marta Zuffi, Chiara Spartà, Francesco Somalvico, Massimo Franceschi

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Article in American journal of Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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Claudio LuzzattiDepartment of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6334-6293
Ilaria MauriDepartment of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Stefania CastiglioniDepartment of Neurology, MultiMedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy.
Marta ZuffiDepartment of Neurology, MultiMedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy.
Chiara SpartàDepartment of Psychology, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
Francesco SomalvicoDepartment of Statistics, MultiMedica Hospital, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy.
Massimo FranceschiDepartment of Neurology, MultiMedica Hospital, Castellanza, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conceptual knowledge is supported by multiple semantic systems that are specialized for the analysis of different properties associated with object concepts. Various types of semantic association between concrete concepts-categorical (CA), encyclopedic (EA), functional (FA), and visual-encyclopedic (VEA) associations-were tested through a new picture-to-picture matching task (semantic association task, SAT). Forty individuals with Alzheimer's disease (AD), 13 with behavioral variant of frontotemporal dementia (bv-FTD), 6 with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and 37 healthy participants were tested with the SAT. Within-group comparisons highlighted a global impairment of all types of semantic association in bv-FTD individuals but a disproportionate impairment of EA and FA, with relative sparing of CA and VEA, in AD individuals. Single-case analyses detected dissociations in all dementia groups. Conceptual knowledge can be selectively impaired in various types of neurodegenerative disease on the basis of the specific cognitive process that is disrupted.

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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, PracticeSemanticsAgedAlzheimer DiseaseAphasia, Primary ProgressiveFemaleFrontotemporal DementiaHumansMaleNeuropsychological Testsdissociated semantic impairmentmultiple semantic systemsneurodegenerative diseasessemantic association tasksemantic breakdownsemantic knowledge

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PMCPMC10623912

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