Dr. David Kemmerer
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
and Department of Psychological Sciences
Purdue University

Monday, March 22, 2010
4:00 – 5:00 pm
Speech and Hearing Building, Room C141
To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions, we administered a battery of 6 tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed lesions in the left and right cerebral hemispheres. The tasks probed lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions in a variety of verbal and non-verbal ways, including naming, word-picture matching, attribute judgments involving both words and pictures, and associative comparisons involving both words and pictures.