Predicting Taxonomic and Thematic Relational Responding

Dissociation of Thematic, Taxonomic, and Integrative Relations

Word pairs may be connected by several possible relations including integrative (denoting a subclass of the head noun; INSTRUCTION – BOOK, a type of book), thematic (related to a common event or theme; EDITOR – BOOK), and taxonomic (shared features and category membership; ARTICLE – BOOK). Prior studies have found greater lexical priming for thematic than taxonomic items, however that may have ...

Taxonomic and Thematic Organisation of Proper Name Conceptual Knowledge

We report the investigation of the organisation of proper names in two aphasic patients (NBC and FBI). The performance of both patients on spoken word to written word matching tasks was inconsistent, affected by presentation rate and semantic relatedness of the competing responses, all hallmarks of a refractory semantic access dysphasia. In a series of experiments we explored the semantic relat...

A Tale of Two Semantic Systems: Taxonomic and Thematic Knowledge

Behavioral, neuroimaging, and lesion analysis data suggest two parallel semantic systems. One system, with anterior temporal lobe as critical hub, captures taxonomic relations based on feature overlap. A second system, with temporoparietal junction as critical hub, captures thematic relations based on complementary roles in events. We describe a computational model of this theory that accounted...

Preserved thematic and impaired taxonomic categorisation : a case study

Teaching Derived Relational Responding to Young Children

Although it employs a relatively small array of behavioral concepts and processes, Relational Frame Theory provides an account of how some of the most complex verbal events can be understood behaviorally and may be established systematically. In the current paper, the findings from a research agenda that has clear and widespread implications for educational practice are summarized. This excitin...