Author: Alex Martin
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9781841699479
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Category-specific knowledge disorders are among the most intriguing and perplexing syndromes in cognitive neuropsychology. The past decade has witnessed increased interest in these disorders, due largely to a heightened appreciation of the profound implications that an understanding of concept representation has for such diverse topics as object recognition, the organisation of the lexicon, and storage of long-term memories. Until recently, information about the representation of concepts was limited to findings from patients with brain injury and disease. This state of affairs has now changed with the advent and wide-spread availability of functional imaging for studying cognition in the normal human brain. The purpose of this special issue is to provide a forum for new findings and critical, theoretical analyses of existing data from patient and functional brain imaging studies. The contributions, all from major investigators in the field, range from studies of specific object categories such as animals, tools, fruit and vegetables, and faces, to the more general domains of number processing, social interaction, and mechanical knowledge. A unifying theme of these papers is the extent to which the findings can be best understood within the context of models that posit an innate, domain-specific organisation, those that appeal to an organisation by sensory- and motor-based features and properties, and those that propose an undifferentiated, distributed neural organisation.

Author: Mark J. Ashley
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1498710328
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 768

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The fourth edition of this text constitutes a continuation of 20 years of coverage of traumatic brain injury, and broadens the discussion of acquired brain injury. Within TBI, the paradigm shift from an injury occurring at a point in time to a disease entity of a chronic nature is changing the discussion of diagnosis, management, treatment and outcome assessment. Disease specification that differentiates TBIs by the mechanism of injury, the exact nature of the injury, the extent of injury, presence of co-morbidities and their exact nature, gender, age, race, and genome are emerging as crucial. Disease differentiation has impacted diagnosis, treatment and outcome.

Author: Timothy T. Rogers
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262182393
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 446

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A mechanistic theory of the representation and use of semantic knowledge that uses distributed connectionist networks as a starting point for a psychological theory of semantic cognition.

Author: Tim Shallice
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199579245
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 603

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To understand the mind, we need to draw equally on the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience. But these two fields have very separate intellectual roots, and very different styles. So how can these two be reconciled in order to develop a full understanding of the mind and brain.This is the focus of this landmark new book.

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Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119170737
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 672

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III. Language & Thought: Sharon Thompson-Schill (Volume Editor) (Topics covered include embodied cognition; discourse and dialogue; reading; creativity; speech production; concepts and categorization; culture and cognition; reasoning; sentence processing; bilingualism; speech perception; spatial cognition; word processing; semantic memory; moral reasoning.)

Author: Emer Forde
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 1135426252
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 481

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This book aims to provide converging evidence as to how knowledge about different categories is represented in the brain, and how this knowledge develops.

Author: Henri Cohen
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0128097663
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 1277

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Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, Second Edition presents the study of categories and the process of categorization as viewed through the lens of the founding disciplines of the cognitive sciences, and how the study of categorization has long been at the core of each of these disciplines. The literature on categorization reveals there is a plethora of definitions, theories, models and methods to apprehend this central object of study. The contributions in this handbook reflect this diversity. For example, the notion of category is not uniform across these contributions, and there are multiple definitions of the notion of concept. Furthermore, the study of category and categorization is approached differently within each discipline. For some authors, the categories themselves constitute the object of study, whereas for others, it is the process of categorization, and for others still, it is the technical manipulation of large chunks of information. Finally, yet another contrast has to do with the biological versus artificial nature of agents or categorizers. Defines notions of category and categorization Discusses the nature of categories: discrete, vague, or other Explores the modality effects on categories Bridges the category divide - calling attention to the bridges that have already been built, and avenues for further cross-fertilization between disciplines

Author: Kevin Ochsner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199988692
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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A rich source of authoritative information that supports reading and study in the field of cognitive neuroscience, this two-volume handbook reviews the current state-of-the-science in all major areas of the field.

Author: Kevin Ochsner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199988706
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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A rich source of authoritative information that supports reading and study in the field of cognitive neuroscience, this two-volume handbook reviews the current state-of-the-science in all major areas of the field.

Author: Mathieu Vandenbulcke
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042919389
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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In this thesis, the author describes the functional contribution of different brain areas to language and knowledge processes and he sheds light on disease mechanisms underlying cognitive dysfunction in patients with neurodegenerative disorders.