Stephen Mazurchuk
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Natural Categories in Semantics
Existence of body-schemas proposed
Distinct processing of animate and inanimate objects proposed
"Impairment of auditory comprehension for body part names, but not for object names"
1911
1940
1966
Goodglass, H., Klein, B., Carey, P. & Jones, K. Specific Semantic Word Categories in Aphasia. Cortex 2, 74–89 (1966).
Head, H. & Holmes, G. Sensory Disturbances from Cerebral Lesions. Brain 34, 102–254 (1911).
1984
Category specific impairment following HSV infection
Suzuki, K., Yamadori, A. & Fuji, T. Category-specific comprehension deficit restricted to body parts. Neurocase 3, 193–200 (1997).
Warrington, E. K., & Shallice, T. Category specific semantic impairment. Brain, 107, 829-854 (1984).
Nielsen, J. M. Agnosia, Apraxia, Aphasia: Their Value in Cerebral Localization. 2d ed. completely rev ed., Hafner Pub (1962).
Category-specific deficit and category-specific sparing of body part comprehension reported
1997/1998
2002
Shelton, J. R., Fouch, E. & Caramazza, A. The Selective Sparing of Body Part Knowledge: A Case Study. Neurocase 4, 339–351 (1998)
Coslett, H. B., Saffran, E. M. & Schwoebel, J. Knowledge of the human body. Neurology 59, 357–363 (2002).
Human body knowledge proposed as a distinct semantic domain
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Goodglass, H., Klein, B., Carey, P. & Jones, K. Specific Semantic Word Categories in Aphasia. Cortex 2, 74–89 (1966).
Suzuki, K., Yamadori, A. & Fuji, T. Category-specific comprehension deficit restricted to body parts. Neurocase 3, 193–200 (1997).
Warrington, E. K., & Shallice, T. Category specific semantic impairment. Brain, 107, 829-854 (1984).
Nielsen, J. M. Agnosia, Apraxia, Aphasia: Their Value in Cerebral Localization. 2d ed. completely rev ed., Hafner Pub (1962).
Shelton, J. R., Fouch, E. & Caramazza, A. The Selective Sparing of Body Part Knowledge: A Case Study. Neurocase 4, 339–351 (1998)
Coslett, H. B., Saffran, E. M. & Schwoebel, J. Knowledge of the human body. Neurology 59, 357–363 (2002).
Research Gap:
Existence of body-schemas proposed
Distinct processing of animate and inanimate objects proposed
"Impairment of auditory comprehension for body part names, but not for object names"
1911
1940
1966
1984
Category specific impairment following HSV infection
Category-specific deficit and category-specific sparing of body part comprehension reported
1997/1998
2002
Human body knowledge proposed as a distinct semantic domain
B8
Head, H. & Holmes, G. Sensory Disturbances from Cerebral Lesions. Brain 34, 102–254 (1911).
Task
Data processing
Analysis
Univariate:
Multivariate:
[Animals, Manipulable Artifacts, Plants and Food, Body Parts]
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Artifact - Animal
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Body Parts
Body Parts & Artifacts
Body Parts & Glasser
SMG
pSTS
pMTG
pOTS
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Results
(Artifact) - (Animal)
Body Parts -
(Artifact, Animals, Plants/Food)
Body Parts & Artifacts
Body Parts & Glasser
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Fernandino, L. et al. Concept Representation Reflects Multimodal Abstraction: A Framework for Embodied Semantics. Cereb Cortex 26, 2018–2034 (2016)
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Searchlight RSA t-scores between neural activation patterns and a 65 dimensional experiential model
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