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 h...
| Published in: | Annual Review of Psychology Vol. 60; pp. 27 - 52 |
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Annual Reviews Inc.
2009
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