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Clues to the functional and neural architecture of word meaning

Oxford University Press eBooksPublished 20 July 2000
Eleanor M. Saffran, Alexandra Sholl
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Abstract

Abstract This chapter discusses a different approach to resolve certain issues and views the semantic system from the perspective of evidence drawn from two sources. The first source is the semantic impairments in brain-damaged individuals, while the second is the neural correlates of semantic activity in normal subjects.

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Psychology