期刊名称：Revue de Neuropsychologie Neurosciences Cognitives et Cliniques
印刷版ISSN：2101-6739
电子版ISSN：2102-6025
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
期号：2
页码：175-183
DOI：10.1684/nrp.2009.0027
出版社：John Libbey Eurotext
摘要：Figures See all figures Authors Mickaël Laisney , Francis Eustache , Béatrice Desgranges Unité 923, Inserm-EPHE-Université de Caen/Basse-Normandie,Caen Key words: semantic memory, famous people, familiarity, Alzheimer’s disease, semantic dementia DOI : 10.1684/nrp.2009.0027 Page(s) : 175-83 Published in: 2009 Semantic memory contains not only generic information such as knowledge about objects and animals but also biographical knowledge about people. Semantic deficits are very relevant in early and differential diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and semantic dementia. In this way, semantic evaluation and specially naming and identification of famous people seem particularly significant and sensitive. Various tests are available in clinical practice to perform a semantic evaluation, but most of them concern generic knowledge. On the basis of face recognition models, we built a battery of tests assessing familiarity of faces and names, semantic biographical knowledge and face naming of 16 famous people. For each people, matching tasks evaluate two types of biographical knowledge, a shared feature (the profession) and a more specific feature. To distinguish a central loss of knowledge from access difficulties, semantic matching tests use the same material proposed in two different forms: faces and names.
关键词：semantic memory; famous people; familiarity; Alzheimer’s disease; semantic dementia
