"Some of the most fascinating deficits in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty with objects from another, such as non-living things. Over the past twenty years, numerous cases of these 'category specific' recognition and naming problems have been documented and several competing theories have been developed to account for the pa ..."
"Some of the most fascinating deficits in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty with objects from another, such as non-living things. Over the past twenty years, numerous cases of these 'category specific' recognition and naming problems have been documented and several competing theories have been developed to account for the pa ..."
"Dr Martin Arguin, Groupe de Recherche en Neuropsychologie Expèrimentale, Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre- Ville, Montréal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada. Professor Alfonso Caramazza ..."
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"The text will be essential reading for advanced undergraduates and researchers in the field of category specificity and a rich source of information for neuropsychologists, experimental and developmental psychologists, cognitive scientists ..."