Semantic relevance, domain specificity and the sensory/functional theory of category-specificity

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 966-976

  Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Gnoato, Francesca ^a   Mariani, Ilenia ^a   Prioni, Sara ^a   Lombardi, Luigi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Category specific impairment; Semantic memory; Sensory knowledge

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; THEORY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CLASSIFICATION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONCEPT FORMATION; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SEMANTICS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33845619563     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.08.028     Document Type: Article

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