Sentence Context Influences the Interpretation of Word Meaning by Alzheimer Patients  

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Nebes, Robert D. ; Halligan, Edythe M.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 54 no. 2 (1996), page 233-245.
Fulltext: 54_02_Nebes.pdf (67.79KB)

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This study examined whether, in Alzheimer patients, verbal context selectively activates elements of a word’s meaning that are relevant to the context. Subjects were shown a sentence ending in a target noun, followed by a question about an attribute of that target. The sentence primed either the attribute in the question, a different attribute, or no attribute. Both normals and AD patients answered the question faster when the target had appeared in a context priming that particular attribute. These results suggest that Alzheimer patients retain knowledge of semantic attributes and that these attributes are susceptible to contextual activation.

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