(from the chapter) in normal subjects the relationship between stimulus and response was dependent on the age of acquisition of the stimulus word /// aphasic patients were better in retrieving episodic rather than defined relationships, probably because linguistically based knowledge may be more vulnerable to brain damage than the earlier acquired knowledge based on episodic memory.
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Loon-Vervoorn, A., & Koppen, M. H.-V. (1988). The Importance of Age of Word Acquisition for Imageability in Word Processing. In Cognitive and Neuropsychological Approaches to Mental Imagery (pp. 99–107). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1391-2_9
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