No fruits without color: Cross-modal priming and EEG reveal different roles for different features across semantic categories.

ABSTRACT: Category-specific impairments witnessed in patients with semantic deficits have broadly dissociated into natural and artificial kinds. However, how the category of food (more specifically, fruits and vegetables) fits into this distinction has been difficult to interpret, given a pattern of deficit that has inconsistently mapped onto either kind, despite its intuitive membership to the natural domain. The present study explores the effects of a manipulation of a visual sensory (i.e., color) or functional (i.e., orientation) feature on the consequential semantic processing of fruits and vegetables (and tools, by comparison), first at the behavioral and then at the neural level. The categorization of natural (i.e., fruits/vegetables) and artificial (i.e., utensils) entities was investigated v

SUBMITTER: Argiris G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8046255 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature