Hostname: page-component-745bb68f8f-b6zl4 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-08T08:42:44.949Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

What is specific about category specificity? Fractionating patterns of impairments and the spurious living/nonliving dichotomy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

E. C. Leek  and
E. M. Pothos
E. C. Leek
Affiliation:
School of Psychology, University of Wales, LL57 2AS Gwynedd, United [email protected] www.psychology.bangor.ac.uk
E. M. Pothos
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ Edinburgh, United [email protected] www.psy.ed.ac.uk/Staff/academics.html#PothosEmmanuel
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

What aspects of the data from studies of acquired category- specific impairments are relevant to theories of knowledge representation? Discussion in the target article focuses on the living/nonliving dichotomy. However, many case studies reveal considerably more complex patterns of impaired and preserved performance that undermine this distinction. We consider this evidence and discuss its implications for theories of knowledge representation.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 487 - 488
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)