Minding the facts: A comment on Thompson-Schill et al.'s 'A neural basis for category and modality specificity of semantic knowledge'

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 944-949

  Caramazza, Alfonso ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Category specific deficits; Semantic deficits; Semantic system

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN DYSFUNCTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN INJURY; BRAIN REGION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; SEMANTICS; THEORY;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; SEMANTICS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0034113553     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(00)00022-1     Document Type: Article

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