Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure, vol. 2: psychological and biological models
Fusiform Activation to Animals is Driven by the Process, Not the Stimulus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Processing Objects at Different Levels of Specificity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Semantic Relevance and Semantic Disorders
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
A Dynamic Causal Modeling Study on Category Effects: Bottom–Up or Top–Down Mediation?
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Substrates of Action Event Knowledge
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Visual Representation in the Wild: How Rhesus Monkeys Parse Objects
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Imaging Cognition II: An Empirical Review of 275 PET and fMRI Studies
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Functional Neuroanatomy of the Semantic System: Divisible by What?
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Anatomy of Category-specific Object Naming in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuroanatomic Organization of Sound Memory in Humans
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
When Peanuts Fall in Love: N400 Evidence for the Power of Discourse
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
A Review of Functional Imaging Studies on Category Specificity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Functional Neuroanatomy of Thematic Role and Locative Relational Knowledge
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitively salient relations for multilingual lexicography
COGALEX '08 Proceedings of the workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon
Introducing people knowledge into science learning
ICLS'08 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on International conference for the learning sciences - Volume 1
ACL '09 Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP: Volume 2 - Volume 2
Effects of relevant and irrelevant primes on idea generation: a computational model
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
A conceptual neural model of idea generation
IJCNN'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international joint conference on Neural Networks
Visual and semantic processing of living things and artifacts: An fmri study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
A semantic model to study neural organization of language in bilingualism
Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience - Special issue on processing of brain signals by using hemodynamic and neuroelectromagnetic modalities
How different types of conceptual relations modulate brain activation during semantic priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Distinct neural systems involved in agency and animacy detection
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Differential activity for animals and manipulable objects in the anterior temporal lobes
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Deconstructing events: The neural bases for space, time, and causality
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The context-object-manipulation triad: Cross talk during action perception revealed by fmri
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
A new benchmark dataset with production methodology for short text semantic similarity algorithms
ACM Transactions on Speech and Language Processing (TSLP)
The emergence of semantic meaning in the ventral temporal pathway
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms, thereby allowing for their selective impairment in conditions of brain damage. On this view, (some of) the category-specific deficits that have recently been reported in the cognitive neuropsychological literature—for example, the selective damage or sparing of knowledge about animals—are truly categorical effects. Here, we articulate and defend this thesis against the dominant, reductionist theory of category-specific deficits, which holds that the categorical nature of the deficits is the result of selective damage to noncategorically organized visual or functional semantic subsystems. On the latter view, the sensory/functional dimension provides the fundamental organizing principle of the semantic system. Since, according to the latter theory, sensory and functional properties are differentially important in determining the meaning of the members of different semantic categories, selective damage to the visual or the functional semantic subsystem will result in a categorylike deficit. A review of the literature and the results of a new case of category-specific deficit will show that the domainspecific knowledge framework provides a better account of category-specific deficits than the sensory/functional dichotomy theory.