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Peer reviewedRogers, Timothy T.; Hodges, John R.; Ralph, Matthew A. Lambon; Patterson, Karalyn – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Presents evidence that although patients with semantic deficits can sometimes show good performance on tests or object decisions, this pattern applies when nonsee-objects do not respect the regularities of the domain. Patients with semantic dementia viewed line drawings of a real and chimeric animals side-by-side and were asked to decide which was…
Descriptors: Animals, Cognitive Processes, Language Impairments, Language Tests
Peer reviewedDiesendruck, Gil – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2003
Drawing on the notion of the domain-specificity of recognition, reviews evidence on the effect of language in classification of and reasoning about categories from different domains. Looks at anthropological infant classification, and preschool categorization literature. Suggests the causal nature and indicative power of animal categories seem to…
Descriptors: Animals, Anthropology, Child Language, Classification
