• Question: When you worked as a visiting phD student what do you think was the most important thing in which you learnt?

    Asked by anon-179129 to Maria, John, Claire on 16 Jun 2018. This question was also asked by anon-179135.
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      Claire Melia answered on 16 Jun 2018:

      I think this one is meant for Maria, not me! I haven’t worked as a visiting PhD student, but i’m interested to see the answer 🙂

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      Maria Montefinese answered on 19 Jun 2018:

      Hi Jemina! 🙂 Thank you for your question! When I was PhD student I was working (as now) on the organization of word meaning and I started my studies on patients with category-specific deficits following a stroke. In other words, these patients have problems to recognize (or name) for example, concepts of the living category such as, animals, plants but they were able to recognize (or name) concepts of nonliving category, such as, for example, tools. So these patients had a damaged semantic store, that is, the store where our knowledge is. What I learned as a visiting PhD student is that there are some patients who are not able to recall correctly the name of some concepts because they have another problem: they are not able to control the interferent knowledge. This kind of deficit is called semantic aphasia.
      All the best,
      Maria

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