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“A mosquito bites and a butterfly flies": a specific response type of frontal patients in a similarity task

2017-11-07

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<h4>Background</h4> Patients with neurodegenerative diseases affecting the frontal lobes have difficulties in categorization tasks, such as the similarity tasks. They give two types of unusual response to the question: “In what way are an orange and a banana alike?”, either a differentiation (“one is yellow, the other is orange”) or a concrete similarity (“they are sweet”). <h4>Objective</h4> To characterize the...

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57aba05e-bfbb-58dc-942c-200e51aa994b
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10.1101/215020
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