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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
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Abstract

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.

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

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