Cogn Neuropsychol. 2002 Jul 1;19(5):463-78. doi: 10.1080/02643290244000031.
The present paper contrasted categorical and featural hypotheses of semantic memory organisation in relation to the living/nonliving things dissociation phenomenon. In the three experiments reported, normal subjects decided if word pairs representing living, nonliving, or both (mixed pairs) shared a particular perceptual (i.e., four legs, size, and hardness) or functional attribute (i.e., dangerousness, speed, and usefulness). The overall pattern of results is more in accordance with a general featural perspective and also emphasises the role of functional attributes. Both a categorical perspective and an attribute-category connection hypothesis have more difficulties in explaining the observed data. Implications for the study of semantic memory organisation and for the explanation of living/nonliving things dissociation cases are also considered.
本文对比了语义记忆组织的范畴和特征假设与生物/非生物分离现象的关系。在报告的三个实验中，正常受试者判断代表生物、非生物或两者（混合对）的单词对是否共享特定的感知（即四条腿、大小和硬度）或功能属性（即危险性、速度和有用性）。结果的总体模式更符合一般特征视角，也强调了功能属性的作用。范畴视角和属性-范畴连接假设在解释观察到的数据方面都有更多困难。本文还考虑了对语义记忆组织研究和对生物/非生物分离案例解释的影响。
