The reign of typicality in semantic memory

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1481, 2007, Pages 813-821

  Patterson, Karalyn ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectionist networks; Event related potentials; Modality specific versus modality general representations; Perceptual versus conceptual processing; Receptive versus expressive tasks; Semantic disorders

Indexed keywords

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MEMORY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; THEORETICAL STUDY;

BRAIN; DEMENTIA; EVOKED RESPONSE; HUMAN; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SEMANTICS;

BRAIN; DEMENTIA; EVOKED POTENTIALS; HUMANS; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PERCEPTION; SEMANTICS;

EID: 34250340116     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2090     Document Type: Conference Paper

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