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Some aspects of semantic-lexical impairment in aphasia*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Guido Gainotti
Guido Gainotti*
Affiliation:
Catholic University of Rome
*
Guido Gainotti, Clinica Neurologica, Università Cattolica, Largo A. Gemelli, 8, 00168, Roma, Italy
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Abstract

Naming disorders of aphasic patients have generally been considered as resulting from an impairment of the ‘peripheral’ mechanisms connecting the central semantic system with the cortical structures subsuming perceptual and motor operations.

In recent years, however, some investigators have suggested that semantic-lexical disorders of aphasic patients may be due to a disruption of the semantic system itself. The results of some personal investigations supporting this last view are reported and two alternative (or complementary) interpretations are advanced to explain the central semantic disorder of aphasic patients. These interpretations assume: (a) a disruption of the information stored in each semantic representation; (b) a disorganization of the mechanisms subsuming semantic storage and semantic retrieval.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , September 1982 , pp. 279 - 294
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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Footnotes

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The fundamental ideas of this paper were presented as an invited address at the 1980 meeting of the Academy of Aphasia (Cape Cod, MA, October 5–7, 1980).

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