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  • 2009

    Book contribution

    • McClelland JL, Rogers TT, Dilkina K, Patterson K, Lambon Ralph MA. (2009). Semantic cognition: Its nature, its development and its neural basis. In M. Gazzaniga (Ed.), The Cognitive Neurosciences IV. Boston, MA: MIT Press. eScholarID:65819

    Journal article

    • Corbett, F., Jefferies, E. & Lambon Ralph, M (2009). Exploring multimodal semantic control impairments in semantic aphasia: Evidence from naturalistic object use. Neuropsychologia, 47(13), 2721-2731. eScholarID:65792 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.05.020
    • Corbett, F., Jefferies, E., Ehsan, S. & Lambon Ralph, M (2009). Different impairments of semantic cognition in semantic dementia and semantic aphasia: evidence from the non-verbal domain. Brain, 132(9), 2593-2608. eScholarID:65790 | DOI:10.1093/brain/awp146
    • Cristina Green Heredia, Sage KE, Lambon Ralph MA, Marcelo Berthier. (2009). Relearning and retention of verbal labels in a case of semantic dementia. Aphasiology, 23, eScholarID:1d18089 | DOI:10.1080/02687030801942999
    • Hoffman P, Elizabeth Jefferies, Ehsan S, Roy W. Jones, Lambon Ralph MA. (2009). Semantic memory is key to binding phonology: Converging evidence from immediate serial recall in semantic dementia and healthy participants. Neuropsychologia, 47, 747-760. eScholarID:1d18483 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.001
    • Hoffman P, Jefferies E., Ehsan S, Hopper S, Lambon Ralph MA. (2009). Selective short-term memory deficits arise from impaired domain-general semantic control mechanisms. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition, 35, 137-156. eScholarID:1d18351 | DOI:10.1037/a0013985
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Pobric GG, Jefferies E. (2009). Conceptual knowledge is underpinned by temporal pole bilaterally: Convergent evidence from rTMS. Cerebral Cortex, 19, 832-838. eScholarID:1d18482 | DOI:10.1093/cercor/bhn131
    • Pobric, G., Lambon Ralph, M. & Jefferies, E (2009). The role of the anterior temporal lobes in the comprehension of concrete and abstract words: rTMS evidence. Cortex, 45(9), 1104-1110. eScholarID:65793 | DOI:10.1016/j.cortex.2009.02.006
    • Soni, M., Lambon Ralph, M., Noonan, K., Ehsan, S., Hodgson, C. & Woollams, A (2009). "L" is for tiger: Effects of phonological (mis)cueing on picture naming in semantic aphasia. Journal of Neurolinguistics, 22(6), 538-547. eScholarID:65795 | DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroling.2009.06.002
    • Takao Fushimi, Kenjiro Komori, Manabu Ikeda, Lambon Ralph MA, Karalyn Patterson. (2009). The association between semantic dementia and surface dyslexia in Japanese. Neuropsychologia, 47, 1061-1068. eScholarID:1d18688 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.12.030

  • 2008

    Journal article

    • Jefferies E, Karalyn Patterson, Lambon Ralph MA. (2008). Deficits of knowledge vs. executive control in semantic cognition: Insights from cued naming. Neuropsychologia, 46, 649-658. eScholarID:1d14324 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2007.09.007
    • Jefferies E., Hoffman P, Jones R., Lambon Ralph MA. (2008). The impact of semantic impairment on verbal short-term memory in stroke aphasia and semantic dementia: A comparative study. Journal of Memory and Language, 58, 66-87. eScholarID:1d16953 | DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2007.06.004
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K (2008). Generalization and Differentiation in Semantic Memory: Insights from Semantic Dementia. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci, 1124, 61-76. eScholarID:1d17097 | DOI:10.1196/annals.1440.006

  • 2007

    Journal article

    • Hodgson C, Lambon Ralph MA. (2007). Mimicking aphasic semantic errors in normal speech production: Evidence from a novel experimental paradigm. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE, 104, 89 - 101. eScholarID:1d13747
    • Jefferies E, Baker SS, Mark Doran, Lambon Ralph MA. (2007). Refractory effects in stroke aphasia: A consequence of poor semantic control. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1065 - 1079. eScholarID:1d14326
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Lowe C, Rogers T. (2007). Neural basis of category-specific semantic deficits for living things: evidence from semantic dementia, HSVE and a neural network model. Brain, 130( Pt 4), 1127-37. eScholarID:1d16008
    • Luzzi S, Snowden JS, Neary D, Coccia M, Provinciali L, Lambon Ralph MA. (2007). Distinct patterns of olfactory impairment in Alzheimer's disease, semantic dementia, frontotemporal dementia and corticobasal degeneration. Neuropsychologia, 45, 1812-1831. eScholarID:1d14692 | DOI:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.12.008
    • Mechelli A., Josephs O., Lambon Ralph MA, McClelland JL, Price CJ. (2007). Dissociating stimulus-driven semantic and phonological effects during reading and naming. 28, 205-221. eScholarID:65693
    • Pobric GG, Jefferies E, Lambon Ralph MA. (2007). Anterior temporal lobes mediate semantic representation: Mimicking semantic dementia by using rTMS in normal participants. PNAS, 104, 20137-20141. eScholarID:1d16765 | DOI:10.1073pnas.0707383104
    • Woollams AM, Lambon Ralph MA, D.C. Plaut, K. Patterson. (2007). SD-squared: on the association between semantic dementia and surface dyslexia. Psychological Review, 114 no2, 316 - 339. eScholarID:1d14614 | DOI:10.1037/0033-295X.114.2.316

  • 2006

    Conference contribution

    • Jefferies E, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). Non-verbal semantic impairment in stroke aphasia: A comparison with semantic dementia. eScholarID:2d2065

    Journal article

    • Crisp J, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). Unlocking the nature of the phonological-deep dyslexial continuum: the keys to reading aloud are in phonology and semantics. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 348-362. eScholarID:1d26868 | DOI:10.1162/jocn.2006.18.3.348
    • Ikeda M, Patterson K, Graham KS, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges JR. (2006). A horse of a different colour: Do patients with semantic dementia recognise different versions of the same object as the same? Neuropsychologia, 44, 566-575. eScholarID:1d12841
    • Jefferies E, Crisp J, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). The impact of phonological or semantic impairment on delayed auditory repetition: Evidence from stroke aphasia and semantic dementia. Aphasiology, 20 (9/10/11), 963-992. eScholarID:1d11084
    • Jefferies E, Frankish C. R, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). Lexical and semantic binding in short-term memory. Journal of Memory and Language, 54, 81-98. eScholarID:1d9174 | DOI:10.1016/j.jml.2005.08.001
    • Jefferies E, Frankish C. R, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). Lexical and semantic influences on item and order memory in immediateserial recognition: Evidence from a novel task. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 59, 949-964. eScholarID:1d9175
    • Jefferies E, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). Semantic impairment in stroke aphasia versus semantic dementia: a case-series comparison. Brain, 129( Pt 8), 2132-47. eScholarID:1d16007
    • Jefferies E, Patterson K, Bateman D, Jones R, Lambon Ralph MA. (2006). The natural history of "pure" late-stage semantic dementia. Neurocase, 12, 1-14. eScholarID:1d9176
    • Patterson K, Lambon Ralph MA, Jefferies E, Woollams AM, Jones R, Hodges J. R, Rogers T. T. (2006). 'Pre-semantic' cognition in semantic dementia: Six deficits in search of an explanation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 18, 169-183. eScholarID:1d9177

  • 2005

    Journal article

    • Garrard P, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Pratt K. H, Hodges J. R. (2005). Semantic feature knowledge and picture naming in dementia of Alzheimer's type: A new approach. Brain and Language, 93, 79-94. eScholarID:1d8295
    • Jefferies E, D Bateman, Lambon Ralph MA. (2005). The role of the temporal lobe semantic system in number knowledge: Evidence from late-stage semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 43, 887-905. eScholarID:1d8771
    • Jefferies E, Jones R. W, Bateman D, Lambon Ralph MA. (2005). A semantic contribution to nonword recall? Evidence for intact phonological processes in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 183-212. eScholarID:1d8296 | DOI:10.1080/02643290442000068

  • 2004

    Journal article

    • Coccia M, Bartolini M, Luzzi S, Provinciali L, Lambon Ralph MA. (2004). Semantic memory is an amodal, dynamic system: Evidence from the interaction of naming and object use in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 513-517. eScholarID:1d8291
    • Jefferies E, Jones R, Bateman D, Lambon Ralph MA. (2004). When does word meaning affect immediate serial recall in semantic dementia? Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 4, 20-42. eScholarID:1d8770
    • Jefferies E, Lambon Ralph MA, Jones R. W, Bateman D, Patterson K. (2004). Surface dyslexia in semantic dementia: A comparison of the influence of consistency and regularity. Neurocase, 10, 290-299. eScholarID:1d8298
    • Jefferies E, Patterson K, Jones R, Bateman D, Lambon Ralph MA. (2004). A category-specific advantage for numbers in verbal short-term memory: evidence from semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 42( 5), 639-60. eScholarID:1d7842
    • Rogers T, Lambon Ralph MA, Garrard P, Bozeat S, McClelland J, Hodges J, Patterson K. (2004). Structure and deterioration of semantic memory: a neuropsychological and computational investigation. Psychol Rev, 111( 1), 205-35. eScholarID:1d7841 | DOI:10.1037/0033-295X.111.1.205
    • Rogers T. T, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R, Patterson K. (2004). Natural selection: The impact of semantic impairment on lexical and object decision. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 2-4, eScholarID:1d8294

  • 2003

    Journal article

    • Bozeat S, Lambon Ralph MA, Graham K. S, Patterson K, Wilkin H, Rowland J, Rogers T. T, Hodges J. R. (2003). A duck with four legs: Investigating the structure of conceptual knowledge using picture drawing in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 1, eScholarID:1d8287
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Garrard P, Hodges J. R. (2003). Semantic dementia with category specificity: A comparative case-series study. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 3-6, 307 - 326. eScholarID:1d8289 | DOI:10.1080/02643290244000301
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K. (2003). Gogi aphasia or semantic dementia? Neuropsychological evidence for an amodal, dynamic semantic system. Brain and Language, 87, 1, eScholarID:1d8288
    • Rogers T. T, Hodges J. R, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K. (2003). Object recognition under semantic impairment: The effects of conceptual regularities on perceptual decisions. Language and Cognitive Processes, 18, 5-6, eScholarID:1d8290

  • 2002

    Book contribution

    • Garrard P, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R, Forde E. M. E, Humphreys G.W. (2002). Semantic dementia: A category-specific paradox. Category-specificity in mind and brain. Hove: Psychology Press. eScholarID:3d357

    Journal article

    • Bozeat S, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Hodges J. R. (2002). The influence of personal familiarity and context on object use in semantic dementia. Neurocase, 8, 1-2, eScholarID:1d8285
    • Rogers T. T, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R, Patterson K. (2002). When recognition is dominated by regularity: Perceptual and lexical decisions under semantic impairment. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, eScholarID:1d8286

  • 2001

    Journal article

    • Galton C, Patterson K, Graham K, Lambon Ralph MA, Williams G, Antoun N, Sahakian B, Hodges J. (2001). Differing patterns of temporal atrophy in Alzheimer's disease and semantic dementia. Neurology, 57( 2), 216-25. eScholarID:1d7557
    • Garrard P, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R, Patterson K. (2001). Prototypicality, distinctiveness, and intercorrelation: Analyses of the semantic attributes of living and nonliving concepts. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 18, 2, eScholarID:1d8284
    • Garrard P, Lambon Ralph MA, Watson P, Powis J, Patterson K, Hodges J. (2001). Longitudinal profiles of semantic impairment for living and nonliving concepts in dementia of Alzheimer's type. J Cogn Neurosci, 13( 7), 892-909. eScholarID:1d7556
    • Lambon Ralph MA, McClelland J, Patterson K, Galton C, Hodges J. (2001). No right to speak? The relationship between object naming and semantic impairment: neuropsychological evidence and a computational model. J Cogn Neurosci, 13( 3), 341-56. eScholarID:1d7558 | DOI:10.1162/08989290151137395
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Powell J, Howard D, Whitworth A, Garrard P, Hodges J. (2001). Semantic memory is impaired in both dementia with Lewy bodies and dementia of Alzheimer's type: a comparative neuropsychological study and literature review. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry, 70( 2), 149-56. eScholarID:1d7560
    • Patterson K, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J, McClelland J. (2001). Deficits in irregular past-tense verb morphology associated with degraded semantic knowledge. Neuropsychologia, 39( 7), 709-24. eScholarID:1d7559

    Journal contribution

    • Lambon Ralph MA, Garrard P. (2001). Category-specific deficits: Insights from semantic dementia and Alzheimer's disease. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 24, 3, eScholarID:17d841

  • 2000

    Journal article

    • Bird H, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Hodges J. (2000). The rise and fall of frequency and imageability: noun and verb production in semantic dementia. Brain Lang, 73( 1), 17-49. eScholarID:1d7563
    • Bozeat S, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Garrard P, Hodges J. (2000). Non-verbal semantic impairment in semantic dementia. Neuropsychologia, 38( 9), 1207-15. eScholarID:1d7564
    • Hodges J, Bozeat S, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Spatt J. (2000). The role of conceptual knowledge in object use evidence from semantic dementia. Brain, 123 ( Pt 9), 1913-25. eScholarID:1d7562
    • Lambon Ralph MA, McClelland J. L, Patterson K, Hodges J. R. (2000). The relationship between semantic memory and speech production: Neuropsychology, neuroanatomy, and a neural-net model. Higher Brain Function Research, 20, 145-156, eScholarID:1d8282

  • 1999

    Conference contribution

    • Rogers T. T, Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, McClelland J. L, Hodges J. R. (1999). A recurrent connectionist model of semantic dementia. eScholarID:2d1606

    Journal article

    • Graham K. S, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R. (1999). A questionable semantics: The interaction between semantic knowledge and autobiographical experience in semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 16, 7, eScholarID:1d8276
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Graham K, Patterson K, Hodges J. (1999). Is a picture worth a thousand words? Evidence from concept definitions by patients with semantic dementia. Brain Lang, 70( 3), 309-35. eScholarID:1d7565

  • 1998

    Journal article

    • Lambon Ralph MA, Graham HK, Ellis A, Hodges J. (1998). Naming in semantic dementia--what matters? Neuropsychologia, 36( 8), 775-84. eScholarID:1d7567
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Howard D, Nightingale G, Ellis A. W. (1998). Are living and non-living category-specific deficits casually linked to impaired perceptual or associative knowledge? Evidence from a category-specific double dissociation. Neurocase, 4, 4-5, 311-338. eScholarID:1d8274

  • 1997

    Journal article

    • Graham K. S, Lambon Ralph MA, Hodges J. R. (1997). Determining the impact of autobiographical experience on "meaning": New insights from investigating sports-related vocabulary and knowledge in two cases with semantic dementia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 14, 6, eScholarID:1d8270
    • Lambon Ralph MA, Patterson K, Hodges J. (1997). The relationship between naming and semantic knowledge for different categories in dementia of Alzheimer's type. Neuropsychologia, 35( 9), 1251-60. eScholarID:1d7568

  • 1995

    Journal article

    • Lambon Ralph MA, Ellis A. W, Franklin S. (1995). Semantic loss without surface dyslexia. Neurocase, 1, 4, eScholarID:1d8266
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