On the existence of category-specific impairments. A reply to Parkin and Stewart.
Parkin and Stewart (this issue) criticize Sartori, Miozzo, and Job's (this issue) demonstration of a category-specific naming impairment for living things when sets of living and non-living things were matched for familiarity, visual complexity, name frequency, and visual similarity. In this paper we discuss the points raised by Parkin and Stewart and argue that they do not undermine our demonstration of a category-specific impairment.
Universita degli studi di Padova, Italy.
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D000849:Anomia / Q000523:psychology*; D001288:Attention; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000523:psychology*; D003210:Concept Formation; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual