Browsing by Author "Caramazza, Alfonso"
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Distinct Regions of Right Temporal Cortex Are Associated with Biological and Human-Agent Motion: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Neuropsychological Evidence
Han, Zaizhu; Bi, Yanchao; Chen, Jing; Chen, Quanjing; He, Yong; Caramazza, Alfonso (Society for Neuroscience, 2013)In human lateral temporal cortex, some regions show specific sensitivity to human motion. Here we examine whether such effects reflect a general biological-nonbiological organizational principle or a process specific to ... -
Distributed sensitivity for movement amplitude in directionally tuned neuronal populations
Fabbri, S.; Caramazza, Alfonso; Lingnau, A. (American Physiological Society, 2011)Neurons in macaque primary motor cortex and dorsal premotor cortex are tuned to movement direction. In humans, neuronal populations tuned to movement direction have recently been described using multivoxel pattern analysis ... -
Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
Caramazza, Alfonso; Shelton, Jennifer R. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1998)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 for their selective ... -
An electrophysiological assessment of distractor suppression in visual search tasks
Mazza, Veronica; Turatto, Massimo; Caramazza, Alfonso (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)We investigated whether the N2pc is unequivocally linked to distractor-suppression mechanisms, as is commonly assumed. According to the distractor-suppression account of the N2pc, no suppression, and thus no N2pc, should ... -
Engaging the Motor System with Masked Orthographic Primes: A Kinematic Analysis
Finkbeiner, Matthew; Song, Joo-Hyun; Nakayama, Ken; Caramazza, Alfonso (Taylor & Francis, 2008)We report two experiments in which participants categorized target words (e. g., BLOOD or CUCUMBER) according to their canonical colour of red or green by pointing to a red square on the left or a green square on the right. ... -
Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles
Striem-Amit, Ella; Ovadia-Caro, Smadar; Caramazza, Alfonso; Margulies, Daniel S.; Villringer, Arno; Amedi, Amir (Oxford University Press, 2015)Is visual input during critical periods of development crucial for the emergence of the fundamental topographical mapping of the visual cortex? And would this structure be retained throughout life-long blindness or would ... -
Functional connectivity of visual cortex in the blind follows retinotopic organization principles
Striem-Amit, Ella; Ovadia-Caro, Smadar; Caramazza, Alfonso; Margulies, Daniel S.; Villringer, Arno; Amedi, Amir (Oxford University Press, 2015)Is visual input during critical periods of development crucial for the emergence of the fundamental topographical mapping of the visual cortex? And would this structure be retained throughout life-long blindness or would ... -
Grammatical and Phonological Influences on Word Order
Janssen, Niels; Caramazza, Alfonso (SAGE Publications, 2009)During the grammatical encoding of spoken multiword utterances, various kinds of information must be used to determine the order of words. For example, whereas in adjective-noun utterances like “red car,” word order can ... -
Grammatical Distinctions in the Left Frontal Cortex
Shapiro, Kevin Alfred; Pascual-Leone, Alvaro; Mottaghy, Felix M.; Gangitano, Massimo; Caramazza, Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2001)Selective deficits in producing verbs relative to nouns in speech are well documented in neuropsychology and have been associated with left hemisphere frontal cortical lesions resulting from stroke and other neurological ... -
Grasping with the eyes: The role of elongation in visual recognition of manipulable objects
Almeida, Jorge; Mahon, Bradford Z.; Zapater-Raberov, Veronica; Dziuba, Aleksandra; Cabaço, Tiago; Marques, J. Frederico; Caramazza, Alfonso (Springer Nature, 2013)Processing within the dorsal visual stream subserves object-directed action, whereas visual object recognition is mediated by the ventral visual stream. Recent findings suggest that the computations performed by the dorsal ... -
Independent Representations of Verbs and Actions in Left Lateral Temporal Cortex
Peelen, Marius V.; Romagno, Domenica; Caramazza, Alfonso (MIT Press - Journals, 2012)Verbs and nouns differ not only on formal linguistic grounds but also in what they typically refer to: Verbs typically refer to actions, whereas nouns typically refer to objects. Prior neuroimaging studies have revealed ... -
Individuation of objects and object parts rely on the same neuronal mechanism
Poncet, Marlene; Caramazza, Alfonso; Mazza, Veronica (Nature Publishing Group, 2016)Recent results have shown that participants can enumerate multiple parts of a single object as efficiently as multiple distinct objects, suggesting a shared mechanism for individuation of objects and object parts. Here we ... -
Introduction to Special Issue on Computational Modelling in Cognitive Neuropsychology
Dell, Gary S.; Caramazza, Alfonso (Taylor and Francis, 2008) -
Is Cognitive Neuropsychology Possible?
Caramazza, Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1992)Cognitive neuropsychology's domain of inquiry concerns the structure of normal perceptual, motor, and cognitive processes. As such, it constitutes a branch of cognitive science. Cognitive neuropsychology differs from other ... -
Judging semantic similarity: an event-related fMRI study with auditory word stimuli
Mahon, B; Caramazza, Alfonso (Elsevier BV, 2010)Much of mental life consists in thinking about object concepts that are not currently within the scope of perception. The general system that enables multiple representations to be maintained and compared is referred to ... -
The Large-Scale Organization of Object-Responsive Cortex Is Reflected in Resting-State Network Architecture
Konkle, Talia A; Caramazza, Alfonso (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2016)Neural responses to visually presented objects have a large-scale spatial organization across the cortex, related to the dimensions of animacy and object size. Most proposals about the origins of this organization point ... -
Left occipitotemporal cortex contributes to the discrimination of tool-associated hand actions: fMRI and TMS evidence
Perini, Francesca; Caramazza, Alfonso; Peelen, Marius V. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2014)Functional neuroimaging studies have implicated the left lateral occipitotemporal cortex (LOTC) in both tool and hand perception but the functional role of this region is not fully known. Here, by using a task manipulation, ... -
The Many Places of Frequency: Evidence for a Novel Locus of the Lexical Frequency Effect in Word Production
Knobel, Mark; Finkbeiner, Matthew; Caramazza, Alfonso (Taylor and Francis, 2008)The effect of lexical frequency on language-processing tasks is exceptionally reliable. For example, pictures with higher frequency names are named faster and more accurately than those with lower frequency names. Experiments ... -
Modality-Specific Deterioration in Naming Verbs in Nonfluent Primary Progressive Aphasia
Hillis, Argye E.; Tuffiash, Elizabeth; Caramazza, Alfonso (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002)A longitudinal study of oral and written naming and comprehension of nouns and verbs in an individual (M. M. L.) with nonfluent primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is reported. M. M. L. showed progressive deterioration of ... -
Modulating the Masked Congruence Priming Effect with the Hands and the Mouth
Finkbeiner, Matthew; Caramazza, Alfonso (American Psychological Association, 2008)The authors report a series of experiments in which they use the masked congruence priming paradigm to investigate the processing of masked primes in the manual and verbal response modalities. In the manual response modality, ...