Aphasics' appreciation of hierarchical semantic categories |
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| Authors: | T Kudo |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Shaanxi Normal University Branch, Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality, Xi''an, China;2. CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, BeiJing, China;3. Department of Psychology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, BeiJing, China |
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| Abstract: | The mental representative structure of hierarchically ordered semantic categories was explored with 66 aphasic patients and 60 normal adults by a word-verification task. Four words concerning living things and 10 line drawings depicting an object were prepared as stimuli. All possible pairings of each of the four words with each of the 10 line drawings were made to be verified. The results indicated that subjective category domains were more diffusive in aphasic patients than in normal adults, and that this alteration was exclusively due to increase of peripheral members, but not of central members. It was also revealed that normative category boundaries may be preserved vestigially or incompletely in aphasic patients except the severe fluent subgroup, in whom there may be profound disintegration of boundaries. On the other hand, some common features concerning intracategorical structure and preference among levels of abstraction across normal adults and aphasic patients permit the hypothesis that aphasic patients may retain partially normal semantic knowledge. |
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