Word selection processing in Parkinson’s disease: When nouns are more difficult than verbs

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Published in: Cortex, Volume 100, March 2018, 8-20 Abstract “Patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD) are impaired in verb production. Interpretations range from grammatical deficits to semantic-conceptual decay of action representation. The verb production deficit in PD can also be considered a dysexecutive disorder, specifically, a deficit of selection processing during word production, due to corticostriatal damage. Producing verbs is “more difficult” than […]

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