Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- review article
- Published by MIT Press in Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Vol. 10 (1), 1-34
- https://doi.org/10.1162/089892998563752
Abstract
We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural mechanisms, thereby allowing f...Keywords
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