We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily
adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural …

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) manifests as memory impairment in the absence of
dementia and progresses to Alzheimer's disease (AD) at a rate of around 15% per annum …

Cognitive aging is a flourishing area of research. A significant amount of new data, a number
of new theoretical notions, and many new research issues have been generated in the past …

A battery of neuropsychological tests designed to assess semantic knowledge about the
same items both within and across different modalities was administered to a group of 22 …

Language in old age has been an active research area since early experimental
investigations in cognitive aging (eg, Craik & Masani, 1967; Riegel & Riegel, 1964). This is …

How is conceptual knowledge organized and represented? Are domains (such as living
things) and categories (such as tools, fruit) represented explicitly or can domain and …

Category-specific impairments of object recognition and naming are among the most
intriguing disorders in neuropsychology, affecting the retrieval of knowledge about either …

Neuropsychological studies have revealed that brain-damaged patients may show
impairments of specific word categories. This study reports the performance of three patients …

Investigation of relationships between age-related changes in regional brain volumes and
changes in domain-specific cognition could provide insights into the neural underpinnings of …

We present a new account of the fine-grained structure of semantic categories derived from
neuropsychological, behavioral, and developmental data. The account places theoretical …