PSY372H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Semantic Dementia, Cerebral Hemisphere, Temporal Lobe
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Those words in the sentence are primed with things that later give you the semantic illusions. What was the famous line uttered by lou. Armstrong when he set foot on the moon. People engage in only a partial assessment o memory information. First reported by warrington (1975), semantic dementia is associated with profound degradation of semantic memory with relative sparing of most other cognitive functions. Semantic memory (all modalities of input and output) According to hodges et al. (1 992), progressive atrophy (shrinking) of temporal lobes, usually bilaterally but often left more than right. Atrophy begins in anterior lateral region of temporal pole, spreading posteriorly and medially. For the serial reaction task, we would expect to observe reaction in this part of the brain where hand movement is corresponding to. And we will observe a neural activity in this part of the brain.
