Progressive Decline of Semantic Memory with Preservation of Number Processing and Calculation

A 75-year-old man with seven years of formal education displayed a syndrome of progressive and severe lexical impairments to word comprehension and production (semantic dementia). While he lost the ability to recognize written arithmetical signs, he could still retrieve the arithmetical facts for ad...

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Main Author: H. F. A. Diesfeldt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 1993-01-01
Series:Behavioural Neurology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/BEN-1993-6411