Concepts and Categories: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Perspective
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Concepts and categories: a cognitive neuropsychological perspective.
One of the most provocative and exciting issues in cognitive science is how neural specificity for semantic categories of common objects arises in the functional architecture of the brain. More than two decades of research on the neuropsychological phenomenon of category-specific semantic deficits has generated detailed claims about the organization and representation of conceptual knowledge. M...
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One of the most provocative and exciting issues in cognitive science is how neural specificity for semantic categories of common objects arises in the functional architecture of the brain. Over two decades of research on the neuropsychological phenomenon of category-specific semantic deficits has generated detailed claims about the organization and representation of conceptual knowledge. More r...
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عنوان ژورنال: Annual Review of Psychology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0066-4308,1545-2085
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.psych.60.110707.163532