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1 MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK, 2 University of Manchester, UK, 3 St Martin's Hospital, Bath, UK, 4 University of Wisconsin, Madison
Reprint requests should be sent to Karalyn Patterson, MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 2EF, UK, or via e-mail: karalyn.patterson{at}mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk. Or to Timothy T. Rogers, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, or via e-mail: ttrogers{at}wisc.edu.
On the basis of a theory about the role of semantic knowledge in the recognition and production of familiar words and objects, we predicted that patients with semantic dementia would reveal a specific pattern of impairment on six different tasks typically considered "pre-" or "non-" semantic: reading aloud, writing to dictation, inflecting verbs, lexical decision, object decision, and delayed copy drawing. The prediction was that all tasks would reveal a frequency-by-typicality interaction, with patients performing especially poorly on lower-frequency items with atypical structure (e.g., words with an atypical spelling-to-sound relationship; objects with an atypical feature for their class, such as the hump on a camel, etc). Of 84 critical observations (14 patients performing 6 tasks), this prediction was correct in 84/84 cases; and a single component in a factor analysis accounted for 87% of the variance across seven measures: each patient's degree of impairment on atypical items in the six experimental tasks and a separate composite score reflecting his or her degree of semantic impairment. Errors also consistently conformed to the predicted pattern for both expressive and receptive tasks, with responses reflecting residual knowledge about the typical surface structure of each domain. We argue that these results cannot be explained as associated but unrelated deficits but instead are a principled consequence of a primary semantic impairment.
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