• DOI:10.1038/nrn2277
Corpus ID: 7310189

Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain

@article{Patterson2007WhereDY,
  title={Where do you know what you know? The representation of semantic knowledge in the human brain},
  author={K. Patterson and P. Nestor and T. Rogers},
  journal={Nature Reviews Neuroscience},
  year={2007},
  volume={8},
  pages={976-987}
}

• K. Patterson, P. Nestor, T. Rogers
• Published 2007
• Psychology, Medicine
• Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Mr M, a patient with semantic dementia — a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized by the gradual deterioration of semantic memory — was being driven through the countryside to visit a friend and was able to remind his wife where to turn along the not-recently-travelled route. Then, pointing at the sheep in the field, he asked her “What are those things?” Prior to the onset of symptoms in his late 40s, this man had normal semantic memory. What has gone wrong in his brain to produce this… Expand

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