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Dementia
Study results from M. Cotelli and colleagues update understanding of dementia
November 19th, 2007
Current study results from the report, 'Universal grammar in the frontotemporal dementia spectrum. Evidence of a selective disorder in the corticobasal degeneration syndrome,' have been published. "While sentence comprehension has been reported to be defective in frontotemporal dementia (FTD), it is still unclear if this disorder reflects the presence of syntactic impairment, or may be attributed to other factors, such as executive or working memory dysfunction. In order to assess the status of syntactic knowledge in a group of patients belonging to the FTD spectrum, we investigated their ability to detect violations of Universal Grammar principles in a sentence judgement task The group...
Source: Pain & Central Nervous System Week (2007-11-19)
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