'Two eyes of a see-through': Impaired and intact semantic knowledge in a case of selective deficit for living things

Neurocase

Volumn 4, Issue 4-5, 1998, Pages 291-310

  Moss, Helen E ^a   Tyler, Lorraine K ^b   Durrant Peatfield, Mark ^b   Bunn, Elaine M ^b  

^a UK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Concepts; Correlation; Distinctiveness; Functional properties; Semantic category

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SEMANTICS; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; VISUAL SYSTEM FUNCTION;

EID: 0031671577     PISSN: 13554794     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13554799808410629     Document Type: Article

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