Reversal of the concreteness effect in a patient with semantic dementia

Breedin, Sarah D.

doi:10.1093/neucas/1.1.39-b

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“…There is neuroimaging evidence in favour of concrete and abstract meaning being on a continuum (MartinLoeches et al, 2001) but equally there is also neuroimaging evidence in favour of multiple sites for concrete meaning (West & Holcombe, 2000) or abstract meaning (Kiehl et al, 1999). The third view suggests that abstract and concrete concepts are different in kind; this view appears to have currency only within neuropsychology and, as Breedin et al (1994) report, largely ignored elsewhere.…”

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Preserved thematic and impaired taxonomic categorisation: A case study

Davidoff

Roberson

2004

Language and Cognitive Processes

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Preserved thematic and impaired taxonomic categorisation: A case study

Davidoff

Roberson

2004

Language and Cognitive Processes

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“…We also administered two synonym triplets tasks [5], one of which varied the grammatical category of the items (nouns and verbs) by trial, while the other varied concreteness. On each trial, R.C.…”

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Grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in left frontal cortex?

2003

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“…The distinction between abstract and concrete words is supported by neuropsychological dissociations. There are a number of patients showing a selective impairment for abstract words with concrete words remaining unimpaired (Franklin, 1989;Franklin, Hoard, & Patterson, 1994) and some (although fewer) reports of the opposite pattern (Breedin, Saffran, & Coslett, 1994;Warrington & Shallice, 1984; but see Plaut & Shallice, 1993; for an alternate account).…”

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Activating meaning in time: The role of imageability and form-class

Tyler

Moss²,

Galpin³

et al. 2002

Language and Cognitive Processes

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A number of studies have shown that the meanings of spoken words are activated early in processing, well before all of the word has been heard. However, these studies have not explicitly taken into account a number of variables which are known to affect word recognition processes. Two important variables are a word's imageability and its form-class. In the experiments reported here we use a cross-modal priming task to investigate the role that these variables play on the time-course with which word meanings are activated. We present visual target words for lexical decision at different points through the duration of spoken primes. In one study the spoken primes were either abstract or concrete words, and in a second they were either nouns or verbs. We found signi cant priming for all types of words early in the duration of a spoken prime. We discuss these results in terms of various models of semantic activation, concluding that distributed models provide the best t to the data.

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Reversal of the concreteness effect in a patient with semantic dementia

Cited by 132 publications

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Preserved thematic and impaired taxonomic categorisation: A case study

Preserved thematic and impaired taxonomic categorisation: A case study

Grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in left frontal cortex?

Activating meaning in time: The role of imageability and form-class

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