Cognitive neuropsychology
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Cognitive neuropsychology · Dec 2000
The "living things" impairment and the nature of semantic memory organisation: An experimental study using PI-release and semantic cues.
The present paper evaluated categorical and featural proposals of memory organisation, for explaining the living/nonliving things dissociation observed in semantic memory. The experimental study used the Release from Proactive Interference (PI-release) paradigm. ⋯ The overall pattern of PI-release emphasizes the role of functional attributes and the role of structural processing to semantic processing. Implications for the different proposals presented, including possible alternative accounts of the results, are also discussed.