Institute of Neurology of the Catholic University of Rome, Policlinico Gemelli, Largo A. Gemelli, 8-00168 Roma, Italy.
Behav Neurol. 1990;3(2):109-15. doi: 10.3233/BEN-1990-3205.
In recent years several papers have shown that different verbal and non-verbal semantic categories can be selectively disrupted by brain damage and that consistent anatomical localizations correspond to each category-specific semantic disorder.This paper aims to suggest that the brain regions typically damaged in a given type of category-specific semantic disorder might be critically involved in processing the kind of information which mainly contributes to organizing that semantic category and to distinguishing among its members.This general hypothesis is discussed taking into account: (a) comprehension and production of object names (nouns) and of action names (verbs) in agrammatic and in anomic aphasic patients; (b) verbal and non-verbal identification of body parts; (c) verbal and non-verbal identification of living beings and of man made artefacts.
近年来，有几篇论文表明，不同的言语和非言语语义类别可以被大脑损伤选择性地破坏，并且一致的解剖定位与每个特定语义障碍类别相对应。本文旨在提出这样一种假设，即特定类型的语义障碍中通常受损的大脑区域可能在处理主要有助于组织该语义类别并区分其成员的信息方面起着关键作用。在考虑到以下因素的情况下，讨论了这一一般假设：（a）语法和命名性失语症患者对物体名称（名词）和动作名称（动词）的理解和产生；（b）身体部位的言语和非言语识别；（c）生物和人造物品的言语和非言语识别。
