We explored the impact of a degraded semantic system on lexical, morphological and syntactic complexity in language production. We analysed transcripts from connected speech samples from eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched healthy speakers. The frequency distributions of nouns and verbs were compared for hand-scored data and data extracted using text-analysis softwa...

Are the sources of ethnocentrism rather more sociological than psychological in nature? In order to answer this question, we review a classic debate between sociologists and psychologists. From this debate we distil two implicit theoretical models which are transposed into explicit and competitive models. A number of lacunas are filled with recent theoretical contributions and, subsequently, th...

We describe a study where a specific treatment method for word-finding difficulty (so-called contextual priming technique, which combines massive repetition priming with semantic priming) was applied with three chronic left hemisphere-damaged aphasics. Both before and after treatment, which focused on naming of a series of pictures, naming-related brain activity was measured by magnetoencephalo...

O compartilhamento de dados é prática corrente em algumas disciplinas, enquanto outras particularmente crítico, dependendo fatores como comportamento individual dos pesquisadores ou da cultura disciplinar. A anomia no pode ocorrer quando os conjuntos valores culturais que governam a conduta e as metas institucionais encontram-se desequilíbrio, pendendo para uma maior relevância interesses parti...

Matthew A. Lambon Ralph1, Karalyn Patterson2,3 and David C. Plaut4 1 Neuroscience & Aphasia Research Unit, School of Psychological Sciences, University of Manchester (UK) 2 Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge and 3MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK 4 Department of Psychology and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

A tomar como mote a tese de Boime que identifica o Realismo arte oficial do Segundo Império, artigo reconstitui por sua própria conta os debates da época e examina na crítica pintura Chesneau Meissonier, também reivindicam realismo, em contraposição aos heterodoxos capitaneados Champfleury Courbet. O exame figuração artística à são feitos partir três dimensões: confronto entre autonomia engajam...