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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2002): |
Category-specific naming and modality-specific imagery.
Full Abstract
Some attempts to explain category-specific disorders have stressed how different modality knowledge bases (i.e., visual knowledge vs motoric/functional knowledge) may underlie the distinction between living and nonliving things. This study examined 60 normal subjects for the relationship between picture naming in four subcategories (animals, fruit/vegetables, praxic and nonpraxic objects) and imagery vividness in seven modalities. Participants made more nonliving than living errors; and females made more nonliving errors than males. There was a significant correlation between naming of animals and fruits/vegetables and visual imagery vividness; however, this association was also significant for praxic and nonpraxic object naming. There was no evidence of associations between kinesthetic imagery and praxic object naming or gustatory/olfactory imagery and fruit/vegetable naming. These findings accord with the notion of a general association between visual imagery and picture naming, but provide no support for more specific links between modality-specific imagery vividness and naming in different categories.
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Author/s: Laws, Keith R (KR);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, London Guildhall University, United Kingdom. klaws(-atsign-)lgu.ac.uk
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: Brain and cognition (Brain Cogn), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: -2002 Mar-Apr; vol 48 (issue 2-3) : pp 418-20
Dates: Created 2002/05/27; Completed 2002/10/16; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 12030480, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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