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Article Dans Une Revue Neuropsychologia Année : 2017

What semantic dementia teaches us about the functional organization of the left posterior fusiform gyrus

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After demonstrating the relative preservation of fruit and vegetable knowledge in patients with semantic de-mentia (SD), we sought to identify the neural substrate of this unusual category effect. Nineteen patients with SD performed a semantic sorting task and underwent a morphometric 3T MRI scan. The grey-matter volumes of five regions within the temporal lobe were bilaterally computed, as well as those of two recently described areas (FG1 and FG2) within the posterior fusiform gyrus. In contrast to the other semantic categories we tested, fruit and vegetable scores were only predicted by left FG1 volume. We therefore found a specific relationship between the volume of a subregion within the left posterior fusiform gyrus and performance on fruits and vegetables in SD. We argue that the left FG1 is a convergence zone for the features that might be critical to successfully sort fruits and vegetables. We also discuss evidence for a functional specialization of the fusiform gyrus along two axes (lateral medial and longitudinal), depending on the nature of the concepts and on the level of processing complexity required by the ongoing task.
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inserm-01613998 , version 1 (10-10-2017)

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Catherine Merck, Isabelle Corouge, Pierre-Yves Jonin, Béatrice Desgranges, Jean-Yves Gauvrit, et al.. What semantic dementia teaches us about the functional organization of the left posterior fusiform gyrus. Neuropsychologia, 2017, 106, pp.159-168. ⟨10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2017.09.023⟩. ⟨inserm-01613998⟩
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