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Hello all,
  I've been looking into the literature on Alzheimer's
disease to see what is known about the affect of the
disease on verb semantics and lexical access.  While
there is a substantial body of information on noun and
object degradation in AD, I have found only a single 
reference which even examined verbs - action verbs only
in this case.
  Martin and Fedio (1983) reported that AD patients were
as capable of naming simple action verbs as their normal
counterparts from line drawings.  Contrasted with object
naming, which AD patients do fairly poorly at, this was
perhaps surprising.  On the other hand this was only 
a small part of a larger experiment and it was not treated
in any detail.
  If anyone knows of references or informatoin related to
this I would appreciate hearing from you.
  Thank you all for your help.

						- Joe

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Joseph Devlin                      * email: jdevlin@pollux.usc.edu
University of Southern California  *
Department of Computer Science     * "The axon doesn't think.
Los Angeles, CA 90089              *  It just ax."  George Bishop
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%A Martin and Fedio
%T <I can't find the name of the paper right now>
%S Brain and Language (1983) 19: 124-141.