Nature Communications (May 2020)

A unified neurocognitive model of semantics language social behaviour and face recognition in semantic dementia

  • Junhua Ding,
  • Keliang Chen,
  • Haoming Liu,
  • Lin Huang,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Yingru Lv,
  • Qing Yang,
  • Qihao Guo,
  • Zaizhu Han,
  • Matthew. A. Lambon Ralph

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16089-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Semantic dementia patients present with a core semantic impairment and variations of language, behavioural and face recognition abilities. Here, the authors build a unified multidimensional model to capture all these graded symptoms and map them to the variations in the patients’ frontotemporal atrophy.