Language assessment has a crucial role in the clinical diagnosis of several
neurodegenerative diseases. The analysis of extended speech production is a precious …

Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is caused by selective neurodegeneration of the
language-dominant cerebral hemisphere; a language deficit initially arises as the only …

The frontal aslant tract is a direct pathway connecting Broca's region with the anterior
cingulate and pre-supplementary motor area. This tract is left lateralized in right-handed …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The characteristics of early and mild disease in primary progressive aphasia are poorly
understood. This report is based on 25 patients with aphasia quotients> 85%, 13 of whom …

Wernicke's aphasia is characterized by severe word and sentence comprehension
impairments. The location of the underlying lesion site, known as Wernicke's area, remains …

Primary progressive aphasia comprises a heterogeneous group of neurodegenerative
conditions with diverse clinical profiles and underlying pathological substrates. A major …

What role does domain-general cognitive control play in understanding linguistic input?
Although much evidence has suggested that domain-general cognitive control and working …

Most people find it profoundly difficult to name familiar smells. This difficulty persists even
when perceptual odor processing and visual object naming are unimpaired, implying …

Objective: Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) has been proposed to comprise 3 discrete
clinical subtypes: semantic, agrammatic/nonfluent, and logopenic. Recent consensus …