Medicina: Neuropsicologia cognitiva
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| semantic system |
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3
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Noun phrase
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Activation by the semantic system, Representation of the semantic system
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| Definition |
Main component of the lexical processing system, repository of the meanings of words.
Main component of the lexical processing system, containing information about the meanings of all the words known by the person concerned.
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Sarno 1991
Sarno 1991
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Are two procedures enough to explain what we khow about reading? Possibly not. Schwartz et al. (1980) described a dementing patient who had almost no word comprehension left; that is, she could make little or no use other semantic system. However, she could read aloud rather well, including exception words such as leopard. How did she read exception words aloud so well? Not by using spelling-to-sound rules (which would result in regularizations of exception words); and not by using the lexical route via the semantic system, because she had a very severe semantic impairment. These and similar findings (e.g. Funnell 1983) lead us to introduce a third reading route or, rather, to subdivide the lexical route, by adding a pathway that goes directly from visual input lexicon to phonological output lexicon, by-passing semantics; this is shown in Figure 5.
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Kay et al. 1996
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Semantic memory, Semantic knowledge
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Aphasia
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Aphasiology
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Cognitive neuropsychology
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| Sub-field (level 3) |
Lexical processing system
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Lexical processing system
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Auditory input lexicon, Visual input lexicon, Grapheme-phoneme conversion route, Phonological buffer, Graphemic buffer, Auditory input, Tactile input, Visual input, Orthographic input, Orthographic output lexicon, Phonological output lexicon, Verbal output, Written output, Phoneme-grapheme conversion, Input lexicons, Output lexicons
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Sistema semantico
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3
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