摘要：The most relevant evidence for the organization of the conceptual knowledge in the brain was first provided bythe patterns of deficits in brain-damaged individuals affecting one or another semantic category. In particular,patients with various etiologies showed a disproportionate impairment in producing and understanding names ofeither animate or inanimate entities. These double dissociations between spared and impaired recognition of animateand inanimate entities suggested that these categories are discretely represented in the brain.
