18th century cases of noun-verb dissociation: the contribution of Carl Linnaeus.
The Neapolitan philosopher Vico reported the first known case of a verb production deficit in aphasia in 1744. The following year the Swedish naturalist Linnaeus described a case of impaired noun production. Hence a double dissociation of lexical category retrieval may have been documented within one year in the 18th century.
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Per
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NEUROTEC, Karolinska Institutet, B56, Huddinge University Hospital, SE-141 86, Stockholm, Sweden. per.ostberg@ger.hs.sll.se
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