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

Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) experience word-finding difficulties that become
increasingly pronounced as pathological changes accrue in the brain. One question that has …

Individual differences in face recognition are often contrasted with differences in object
recognition using a single object category. Likewise, individual differences in perceptual …

Semantic memory tests assess long-term memory for facts, objects, and concepts as well as
words and their meaning. Since it holds culturally shared information, the development of …

The phenomenon of affective priming has caught scientific interest for over 30 years, yet the
nature of the affective priming effect remains elusive. This study investigated the underlying …

A new set of 174 pictures in black-and-white, coloured and spatially filtered versions, taken
from photographs of real objects belonging to different semantic categories, was realised for …

The fusiform face area (FFA) is defined by its selectivity for faces. Several studies have
shown that the response of FFA to nonface objects can predict behavioral performance for …

We describe a new case of semantic deficit in which nonliving categories are
disproportionately impaired. PL, a woman affected by progressive degeneration of the left …

Are all categories of objects recognized in the same manner visually? Evidence from
neuropsychology suggests they are not: some brain damaged patients are more impaired in …

Recent studies have reported that males show better naming of nonliving things than
females, while females show better naming of living things than males. Such effects may …