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| Author(s): |
Salmazo-Silva, Henrique
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de Mattos Pimenta Parente, Maria Alice
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Rocha, Maria Sheila
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Baradel, Roberta Roque
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Cravo, Andre M.
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Sato, Joao Ricardo
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Godinho, Fabio
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Carthery-Goulart, Maria Teresa
Total Authors: 8
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | BRAIN AND LANGUAGE; v. 165, p. 10-20, FEB 2017. |
| Web of Science Citations: | 11 |
| Abstract | |
The dissociation between the processing of verbs and nouns has been debated in light of the Embodied Cognition Theory (EC). The objective of this paper is to verify how action and verb processing deficits of PD patients are modulated by different tasks with different cognitive demands. Action and object lexical semantic processing was evaluated in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD) and cognitively healthy controls through three different tasks (verbal fluency, naming and semantic association). Compared to controls, PD patients presented worse performance in naming actions and in the two semantic association tasks (action/object). Action verbal fluency performance was significantly associated with PD severity whereas object semantic association deficits and noun verbal fluency scores were associated to lower scores in measures of global cognitive functioning. Our data suggest that semantic deficits are related to the type of cognitive processing and this is in the line with more flexible EC accounts. (C) 2016 Published by Elsevier Inc. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 14/22573-5 - Semantic specificity in the representation of action verbs in Parkinson's Disease patients |
| Grantee: | Henrique Salmazo da Silva |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate |