Anterior temporal lobe and the representation of knowledge about people

Patients with semantic dementia (SD), a neurodegenerative disease affecting the anterior temporal lobes (ATL) (1), present with striking cognitive deficits: they can have difficulties naming objects and familiar people from both pictures and descriptions (2, 3). Furthermore, SD patients make semanti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anzellotti, Stefano
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Format: Article
Published: National Academy of Sciences 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/112947
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8964-6988