Shapes, scents and sounds: Quantifying the full multi-sensory basis of conceptual knowledge

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-25

  Hoffman, Paul ^a   Lambon Ralph, Matthew A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Category specific deficits; Object knowledge; Semantic representation; Sensory functional theory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MOTION; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROSCIENCE; ODOR; RATING SCALE; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; SOUND; WORD RECOGNITION;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PITCH PERCEPTION; REACTION TIME; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; SMELL; SOUND; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84870512381     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.009     Document Type: Article

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