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Title Category specificity in brain and mind / edited by Emer M.E. Forde and Glyn W. Humphreys
Published Hove, East Sussex : Psychology Press ; New York, NY : Taylor & Francis, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 458 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (some color)
Series Brain damage, behaviour, and cognition
Brain damage, behaviour, and cognition
Contents Chapter 1 The domain-specific hypothesis: A developmental and comparative perspective on category-specific deficits -- A developmental and comparative perspective on category-specific deficits CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DEFICITS: -- chapter 2 A case of domain-specific semantic deficit / G. Sartori -- chapter Basic neuropsychological testing -- chapter Degradation of stored knowledge -- chapter 3 The principle of target-competitor differentiation in object recognition and naming (and its role in category effects in normality and pathology) -- chapter Top-down processing for naming: The Hierarchical Interactive Theory (HIT) -- chapter Effects of perceptual similarity on name selection -- chapter 4 Visual processing and the dissociation between biological and man-made categories -- chapter Interaction of shape by semantic processing -- chapter GENERALISATION OF IMPLICATIONS FROM ELM -- chapter MODELLING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SHARED-SHAPE FEATURES AND SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS -- chapter CONCLUSIONS / Acknowledgements -- chapter 5 The emergence of category-specific deficits in a distributed semantic system -- chapter Domain dissociations and severity of damage -- chapter APPENDIX: BRIEF CASE DETAILS FOR THE SIX HSE PATIENTS INCLUDED IN THE PROPERTY KNOWLEDGE STUDY RC (Moss and others, 1998) -- chapter 6 Semantic dementia: A category-specific paradox / P. Garrard, M.A. Lambon Ralph, and J.R. Hodges -- chapter APPENDIX: LIST OF STIMULI USED IN THE STUDY, WITH ASSOCIATED VALUES OF CONCEPT FAMILIARITY AND AGE OF ACQUISITION (A-o-a) -- chapter 7 Category-specific recognition impairments in Alzheimer's disease / C. Whatmough -- chapter CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DEFICITS IN ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE -- chapter FACTORS EXPLAINING VARIABLE RESULTS Stimulus variables -- chapter Explanation 1: it is an epiphenomenon -- chapter Explanation 3: category effects reflect the organisation of semantic memory -- chapter 8 Factors underlying category-specific semantic impairments / K. McRae and G.S. Cree -- chapter Feature correlations in living versus non-living things -- chapter Feature correlations and the seven trends -- chapter DISTINGUISHING FEATURES -- chapter Distinguishing features and the seven trends -- chapter WB types versus the visual (sensory)/ functional taxonomies -- chapter REFERENCES -- chapter APPENDIX A: EXAMPLES OF LIVING AND NON-LIVING THING CONCEPTS FROM FEATURE NORMS -- chapter APPENDIX B: THE CONCEPTS FROM THE NORMS, ORGANISED BY CATEGORY -- chapter 9 Connectionist perspectives on category-specific deficits / T.T. Rogers and D.C. Plaut -- chapter Thesis: the domain-specific knowledge hypothesis -- chapter 10 Exemplar models and category-specific deficits / K. Lamberts -- chapter EXEMPLAR MODELS OF CATEGORISATION AND IDENTIFICATION -- chapter DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LIVING AND NON-LIVING OBJECT CATEGORIES -- chapter IS A SIMILARITY-BASED ACCOUNT SUFFICIENT TO EXPLAIN CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DEFICITS? -- chapter 11 On the foundations of the semantic system / J.M. Mandler -- chapter THE MEANING OF THE FIRST CONCEPTS -- chapter IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORGANISATION OF THE ADULT CONCEPTUAL SYSTEM -- chapter 12 Animates and other separately moveable objects / K. Subrahmanyam -- chapter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- chapter 13 Categories and levels of information / F. Keil, N.S. Kim, and M.L. Greif -- chapter THE LOW-LEVEL PERCEPTUAL SHUNT AND "ENLIGHTENED EMPIRICISM" -- chapter 14 The relationships between anatomical and cognitive locus of lesion in category-specific disorders -- chapter THEORETICAL PROBLEMS AND CONFOUNDING FACTORS IN THE STUDY OF CATEGORY-SPECIFIC DISORDERS Theoretical problems -- chapter Confounding factors -- chapter Category-specific disorders arising at the semantic level -- chapter Category-specific disorders arising at the visual level -- chapter APPENDIX : LISTOFPATIENTSWITHASELECTIVEIMPAIRMENTFORLIVINGANDFORNON -L IVINGTHINGSCONSIDEREDINOURSTUDY -- chapter 15 Functional imaging studies of category specificity / C.J. Price and K.J. Friston -- chapter Experimental design in functional imaging -- chapter ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Human information processing.
Differentiation (Cognition)
Categorization (Psychology)
Form perception.
Visual perception.
Neuropsychology.
Concept Formation -- physiology
Mental Processes
Form Perception
Visual Perception
Cognition -- physiology
Form Perception -- physiology
Neuropsychology
Visual Perception -- physiology
visual perception.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Categorization (Psychology)
Differentiation (Cognition)
Form perception
Human information processing
Neuropsychology
Visual perception
Form Electronic book
Author Forde, Emer M. E., 1970-
Humphreys, Glyn W
ISBN 0203990293
9780203990292
9781841692906
1841692905
9781135426200
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9781135426255
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