In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods (behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …
This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces …
As a cognitive neuropsychologist, Tim Shallice considers the general question of what can be learned about the operation of the normal cognitive system from the study of the cognitive …
A Caramazza - Cognitive neuropsychology, 1997 - Taylor & Francis
The patterns of semantic errors in speaking and writing are used to constrain claims about the structure of lexical access mechanisms in speech and written language production. It is …
Syntactic structures are complex objects, whose subtle properties have been highlighted and elucidated by half a century of formal syntactic studies, building on a much older …
F Pulvermüller - Behavioral and brain sciences, 1999 - cambridge.org
If the cortex is an associative memory, strongly connected cell assemblies will form when neurons in different cortical areas are frequently active at the same time. The cortical …
This book presents a unique synthesis of the current neuroscience of cognition by one of the world's authorities in the field. The guiding principle to this synthesis is the tenet that the …
AR Damasio, D Tranel - Proceedings of the National …, 1993 - National Acad Sciences
In a task designed to elicit the production of verbs, the patients known as AN-1033 and Boswell consistently produced the correct target words, performing no differently from …
EK Warrington, RA McCarthy - Brain, 1987 - academic.oup.com
In this study we investigated the category specificity of the comprehension impairments of YOT, a patient with a severe global dysphasia. Using matching to sample techniques it was …