Category Specificity in Brain and Mind
Forde, Emer / Humphreys, Glyn
Some of the most fascinating disorders in neuropsychology concern the failure to recognise common objects from one semantic category, such as living things, when there is no such difficulty from another, such as non-living things. Over the past 20 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 patients' disorders."Cate...