Dissociations between the processing of nouns and verbs are well recognised in a number
of neurological diseases. Anatomically, deficits in verb processing have been linked to the …

The human ability to make tools and use them to solve problems may not be zoologically
unique, but it is certainly extraordinary. Yet little is known about the conceptual machinery …

In Study 1, six patients with semantic dementia were asked to produce drawings of concrete
concepts from dictation of their names. The drawings were characterised by a loss of …

In this article we assume a domain-specific organisation of conceptual knowledge and
consider two questions: How does this architecture constrain further assumptions that might …

Although patients with semantic deficits can sometimes show good performance on tests of
object decision, we present evidence that this pattern applies when nonsense-objects do not …

Normal subjects were asked to produce the “first word that comes to mind” in response to
pictures or words that differed with respect to manipulability and animacy. In separate …

We present data from a patient with a progressive fluent aphasia, BA, who exhibited a
severe verbal impairment but a relatively preserved access to knowledge from pictures. She …

Publisher Summary This chapter examines whether, beyond the coarse sampling of
students, there is evidence for a direct route between action and vision. In addition, the …

Grazie alla memoria semantica attribuiamo un significato agli oggetti dell'esperienza. Il suo
posto nell'ambito delle funzioni cognitive è di primaria importanza se si pensa che essa è …

Tulving (1972) characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that provides
a substrate for language and many other cognitive processes. Tulving's perspective resulted …