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Concepts and categories: What is the evidence for neural specialisation?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Lorraine K. Tyler  and
Helen E. Moss
Lorraine K. Tyler
Affiliation:
Centre for Speech and Language, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdomlktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.ukhem10@cam.ac.uk
Helen E. Moss
Affiliation:
Centre for Speech and Language, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EB, United Kingdomlktyler@csl.psychol.cam.ac.ukhem10@cam.ac.uk
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Abstract

Humphreys and Forde argue that semantic memory is divided into separate substores for different kinds of information. However, the neuro-imaging results cited in support of this view are inconsistent and often methodologically and statistically unreliable. Our own data indicate no regional specialisation as a function of semantic category or domain and support instead a distributed unitary account.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 495 - 496
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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