Concept information
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
Bibliographic citation(s)
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• 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]
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• 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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URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/P66-GMV9T2W9-S
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