A common processing system for the concepts of artifacts and actions? evidence from a case of a disproportionate conceptual impairment for living things

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-43

  Pillon, Agnesa ^a,b   d'Honincthun, Peggy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b FNRS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Category specific deficits; Concepts of actions; Conceptual system; Manipulability; Sensory functional account

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC BRAIN DISEASE; CONCEPT FORMATION; HERPES SIMPLEX ENCEPHALITIS; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PLANT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN DAMAGE, CHRONIC; CONCEPT FORMATION; ENCEPHALITIS, HERPES SIMPLEX; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PLANTS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 82755174147     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643294.2011.615828     Document Type: Article

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