Animacy distinctions and semantic dementia
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https://doi.org/10.36505/ExLing-2019/10/0031/000393Keywords:
animacy distinction, impairment, semantic category, hypometabolism, temporal lobes, correlationAbstract
We explored relationships between performance in “living” and “non-living” animacy distinctions and brain metabolism in patients with a semantic variant of a primary progressive aphasia (Sv-PPA) as well as healthy volunteers. Outcomes did not convincingly support differences in the processing of living’ vs ‘non-living’ items in SvPPA patients, and point out at complex potentially interesting anatomical specialization in the processing of these two types of categories, which should be further pursued in a larger cohort.
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