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Autobiographical experience and word meaning

J S Snowden1, H L Griffiths, D Neary

  • 1Department of Neurology, Manchester Royal Infirmary, UK.

Memory (Hove, England)
|September 1, 1995
PubMed
Summary
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Personal experiences shape word meaning in semantic dementia. Patient WM's vocabulary was context-bound, showing autobiographically constrained understanding, not normal semantic knowledge.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Semantic dementia impairs word comprehension.
  • Patient WM retains daily-life vocabulary despite deficits.
  • Investigating the link between personal experience and word meaning.