School of Psychology: Recent submissions
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Fronto-parietal contributions to episodic retrieval – evidence from neurodegenerative disorders
Published 2019-06-01Converging evidence suggests a critical role for the parietal cortices in episodic memory retrieval. Here, we examined episodic memory performance in Corticobasal Syndrome (CBS), a rare neurodegenerative disorder presenting ...Open AccessArticle -
"All is not lost” - Rethinking the nature of memory and the self in dementia
Published 2019-09-18Memory and the self have long been considered intertwined, leading to the assumption that without memory, there can be no self. This line of reasoning has led to the misconception that a loss of memory in dementia necessarily ...Open AccessArticle -
Visuospatial dysfunction in Alzheimer’s disease and behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia
Published 2019-09-18OBJECTIVES: Approximately 30% of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patients are misdiagnosed due to overlapping and evolving clinical features. In particular, the distinction of AD from behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia ...Open AccessArticle -
The other side of the coin – Semantic dementia as a lesion model for understanding recollection and familiarity
Published 2019-09-18The syndrome of semantic dementia represents the “other side of the coin” to Alzheimer’s disease, offering convergent evidence to help refine Bastin et al.’s Integrative Memory Model. By considering the Integrative Memory ...Open AccessArticle -
"Truth be told” – Semantic memory as the scaffold for veridical communication
Published 2018-01-22Theoretical accounts placing episodic memory as central to constructive and communicative functions neglect the role of semantic memory. We argue that the decontextualized nature of semantic schemas largely supersedes the ...Open AccessArticle