Article: Semantic memory test may help diagnose early AD.(Alzheimer's disease)(Brief Article)

Article: Semantic memory lost early in AD.(Geriatric ...
Clinical Psychiatry News;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... they said. "First, semantic memory tests may be sensitive diagnostic ... Further, tests for semantic memory have been found to correlate ... highlights that assessment of semantic memory is important in early AD when trying to identify ...

Article: Semantic Memory
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...Semantic Memory In 1972 the cognitive scientist ... events within some specific context, semantic memory involves our recall of factual knowledge ... dependent. Psychologists have assessed semantic memory through a large array of tests ...

Article: Future Directions for Examining Semantic Memory in ...
Clinical EEG and Neuroscience;  April 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... abnormalities. This review focuses on semantic memory dysfunction and, primarily, on functional ... to a more detailed understanding of semantic memory dysfunction in schizophrenia. INTRODUCTION ... special regard to abnormalities in semantic memory with an emphasis on event-related ...

Article: Accessing causal relations in semantic memory
Memory & Cognition;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Most studies investigating semantic memory have focused on taxonomic or ... of an associative relation. Semantic memory is regarded as the long-term ... amp; Patterson, 1997). Semantic memory contains knowledge about categories ...

Article: The deterioration of semantic memory in Alzheimer's ...
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology;  March 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Abstract Semantic memory impairment is a common feature ... standing store (i.e., a semantic memory deficit) also occurs as the disease ... Hyman et al., 1984). The semantic memory deficit that occurs in DAT, in ...

Article: Further evidence for feature correlations in semantic ...
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology;  December 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... The role of feature correlations in semantic memory is a central issue in conceptual representation ... research provides further evidence that semantic memory includes implicitly learned statistical ... 1981), many researchers claim that semantic memory does not include knowledge of ...

Article: Serial processing in melody identification and the organization ...
Perception and Psychophysics;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... identification, that phrase-level information is used to organize melodies in semantic memory, and that phrase-level information is required to effectively search semantic memory. Most theories of object identification are based on evidence gathered ...