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Neuro-cognitive development of semantics in Chinese and English-speaking children with and without autism


AUTHORS

Chou TLT , Booth JRJames . Clinical Cultural Neuroscience: Foundations and Neuropsychological Assessment . 200-15

ABSTRACT

In this chapter, we will review the neurocognitive organization and processing of semantic knowledge. By organization, we are referring to how the actual representations themselves are organized in occipitotemporal cortex. By processing, we are referring to how these representations are accessed and manipulated by frontoparietal cortex. The first section of the paper will review association strength versus categorical relations in semantic knowledge. The second and third sections discuss what is known about the organization and processing of semantic knowledge in typical children. The fourth and fifth sections review the organization and processing of semantic knowledge in autistic children. Finally, we end the chapter with a summary and implications of this work for future research.