Hostname: page-component-74656f9884-2dmjx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-11-09T22:30:18.947Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Further evidence in support of a distributed semantic memory system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2001

Eleanor M. Saffran  and
H. Branch Coslett
Eleanor M. Saffran
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19140 saffran@astro.temple.edu
H. Branch Coslett
Affiliation:
Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 hbc@mail.med.upenn.edu
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button.

We offer additional points that support a distributed semantic memory: (1) the activation of representations that are modality-specific; (2) patients with inferotemporal lesions fail to activate visual object representations in semantic tasks, although normal subjects do; (3) direct activation of action systems from pictorial information, but not from words; (4) patients who demonstrate superiority with abstract words fail to access perceptual representations.

Information

Type
Brief Report
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 24 , Issue 3 , June 2001 , pp. 492 - 493
Copyright
© 2001 Cambridge University Press