Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
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One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press
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One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA: MIT Press
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We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms, thereby allowing for their selective impairment in conditions of brain damage. On this view, (some of) the category-specific deficits that have recently been reported in t...
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Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
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TN_cdi_pubmed_primary_9526080
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_pubmed_primary_9526080
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0898-929X
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1530-8898
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10.1162/089892998563752
