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disposition > cognitive disorder > memory disorder > category-specific semantic deficit

Preferred term

category-specific semantic deficit  

Definition

  • Impairment of conceptual knowledge about a specific semantic category (e.g., living things), while conceptual knowledge about other categories is preserved (e.g., inanimate objects).

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • category-specific deficit
  • category-specific semantic impairment

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Bibliographic citation(s)

  • • Caramazza, A., & Mahon, B. Z. (2003). The organization of conceptual knowledge: the evidence from category-specific semantic deficits. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7(8), 354-361. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1364-6613(03)00159-1

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]

  • • Chen, L., Lambon Ralph, M. A., & Rogers, T. T. (2017). A unified model of human semantic knowledge and its disorders. Nature Human Behaviour, 1(3), 0039. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-016-0039

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

Creator

  • Frank Arnould

Disorder of

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-GMV9T2W9-S

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