The study addresses the issue of the selective preservation of verbs in Alzheimer's disease
(AD). Twenty three AD patients and age-matched controls named pictures of objects and …

We administered measures of object naming and action naming to matched groups of ten
patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and ten normal control subjects. AD patients were …

Background: Although semantic dementia (SD) is characterised by a multimodal loss of
semantic knowledge, it has been demonstrated that lexical‐semantic representations are …

The present study compared object and action naming in patients with Alzheimer's
dementia. We tested the hypothesis put forward in (some) previous studies that in …

We addressed the question of whether Alzheimer's Disease (AD) causes a selective
impairment for knowledge of living things. Although we replicated a previous finding that AD …

We report an experimental investigation into the contrasting disorders of naming observed in
two patients with dementia. A study of category wordfluency (ie naming to a given category …

The processes required for object naming were addressed in a study of patients with
semantic dementia (a selective decline of semantic memory resulting from progressive …

Lexico-semantic impairments in Alzheimer disease (AD) have been attributed to
abnormalities in both intentional and automatic access to semantic memory. However, the …

In semantic dementia (SD), there is a correlation between performance on semantic tasks
such as picture naming and lexical tasks such as reading aloud. However, there have been …

Two studies explored whether sentence comprehension impairments in Alzheimer's disease
(AD) are due to deficits in syntactic processing or memory. Study 1 used a picture-pointing …