The Organisation of Conceptual Knowledge in the Brain: Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Perspectives: A Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology

ISBN-13: 9781138877948 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 400 str.

Alfonso Caramazza; Alex Martin

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Martin, Caramazza, Neuropsychological and Neuroimaging Perspectives on Conceptual Knowledge: An Introduction. Capitani, Laiacona, Mahon, Caramazza, What are the Facts of Semantic Category-specific Deficits? A Critical Review of the Clinical Evidence. Humphreys, Riddoch, A Case Series Analysis of 'Category-specific' Deficits of Living Things: The HIT Account. Lambon Ralph, Patterson, Garrard, Hodges, Semantic Dementia with Category Specificity: A Comparative Case Series Study. Borgo, Shallice, Category-specificity and Feature Knowledge: Evidence from New Sensory-quality Categories. Crutch, Warrington, The Selective Impairment of Fruit and Vegetable Knowledge: A Multiple Processing Channels Account of Fine-grain Category Specificity. Samson, Pillon, A Case of Impaired Knowledge for Fruit and Vegetables. Farah, Rabinowitz, Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Organisation of Semantic Memory in the Brain: Is "Living Things" an Innate Category? Tranel, Kemmerer, Adolphs, Damasio, Damasio, Neural Correlates of Conceptual Knowledge for Actions. Mahon, Caramazza, Constraining Questions about the Organisation and Representation of Conceptual Knowledge. Kyle, Simmons, Barsalou, The Similarity-in-topography Principle: Reconciling Theories of Conceptual Deficits. Dehaene, Piazza, Pinel, Cohen, Three Parietal Circuits for Number Processing. Gauthier, James, Curby, Tarr, The Influence of Conceptual Knowledge on Visual Discrimination. Kan, Barsalou, Solomon, Minor, Thompson-Schill, Role of Mental Imagery in a Property Verification Task: fMRI Evidence for Perceptual Representations of Conceptual Knowledge. Tyler, Bright, Tavares, Pilgrim, Fletcher, Greer, Moss, Do Semantic Categories Activate Distinct Cortical Regions? Evidence for a Distributed Neural Semantic System. Price, Noppeney, Phillips, Devlin. How Is the Fusiform Gyrus Related to Category-specificity? Martin, Weisberg, Neural Foundations for Understanding Social and Mechanical Concepts.

O autorze

Alfonso Caramazza, Alex Martin