Publications for Bradford Z. Mahon

Mahon, B.Z. (in press). Missed Connections: A connectivity constrained account of the representation and organization of object concepts. To appear in Margolis, E., & Laurence, S. (Eds.), Concepts: New Directions. [pdf].
Mahon, B.Z., Kumar, N., & Almeida, J. (in press). Spatial frequency tuning reveals interactions between the dorsal and ventral visual systems. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. [pdf]
Stasenko, A., Garcea, F.E., & Mahon, B.Z. (in press). What happens to the motor theory of perception when the motor system is damaged? Language and Cognition. [pdf]
Fintzi, A.R., & Mahon, B.Z. (in press). A bimodal tuning curve for spatial frequency across left and right human orbital frontal cortex during object recognition. Cerebral Cortex. [pdf]
Navarrete, E., & Mahon, B.Z. (in press). A rose by any other name is still a rose: A reinterpretation of Hansch and Mädebach. Language and Cognitive Processes. [pdf]
Garcea, F.E., Dombovy, M., & Mahon, B.Z. (2013). Preserved tool knowledge in the context of impaired action knowledge: Implications for models of semantic memory. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 7, 1-18. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Almeida, J., Pajtas, P.E., Mahon, B.Z., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2013). Affect of the unconscious: Visually suppressed angry faces modulate our decisions. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 13, 94-101. [pdf]
Garcea, F.E., & Mahon, B.Z. (2012). What is in a tool concept? Dissociating manipulation knowledge from function knowledge. Memory and Cognition, 40, 1303-1313. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Garcea, F.E., Almeida, J., & Mahon, B.Z. (2012). A right visual field advantage for visual processing of manipulable objects. Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Neuroscience, 12, 813-825. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Navarrete, E., Del Prato, P., & Mahon, B.Z. (2012). Factors determining semantic faciliation and interference in the cyclic naming paradigm. Frontiers in Psychology, 38, 1-15. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z., Garcea, F.E., & Navarrete, E. (2012). Picture-word interference and the response exclusion hypothesis: A response to Mulatti and Coltheart. Cortex, 48, 373-377. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2011). What drives the organization of object knowledge in the brain? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 15, 97-103. [pdf]
Anzellotti, S., Mahon, B.Z., Schwarzbach, J., & Caramazza, A. (2011). Differential activity for animals and manipulable objects in the anterior temporal lobes. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 2059-2067. [pdf]
Navarrete, E., Mahon, B.Z., & Caramazza, A. (2010). The cumulative semantic cost does not require lexical selection by competition. Acta Psychologica, 134, 279-289. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2010). Judging semantic similarity: An event-related fMRI study with auditory word stimuli. Neuroscience, 169, 279-286. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. Schwarzbach, J., & Caramazza, A. (2010). The representation of tools in left parietal cortex independent of visual experience. Psychological Science, 21(6), 764-771. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., & Caramazza, A. (2010). The role of the dorsal visual processing stream in tool identification. Psychological Science, 21(6), 772-778. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Janssen, N., Mellinger, A., Mahon, B.Z., Finkbeiner, M., & Caramazza, A. (2009). The word class effect in the picture-word interferences paradigm. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 63(6), 1233-1246. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2009). Why does lexical selection have to be so hard? Comment on Abdel Rahman & Melinger's Swinging Lexical Network Proposal. Language & Cognitive Processes. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z., Anzellotti, S., Schwarzbach, J., Zampini, M., & Caramazza, A. (2009). Category-specific organization in the human brain does not require visual experience. Neuron, 63, 397-405. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z & Caramazza, A. (2009). Concepts & Categories: A Cognitive Neuropsychological Perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 27–51. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. (2008). Action Recognition: Is It a Motor Process? Current Biology, 18, 22, R1068-1069. [pdf]
Almeida, J., Mahon, B.Z., Nakayama, K., & Caramazza, A. (2008). Unconscious processing dissociates along categorical lines. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 5214–15218. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2008). A Critical Look at the Embodied Cognition Hypothesis & a New Proposal for Grounding Conceptual Content. Journal of Physiology - Paris, 102, 59-70. [pdf]
Janssen, N., Schirm, W. Mahon, B.Z., & Caramazza, A. (2008). The semantic interference effect in the picture-word interference paradigm: Evidence for the response selection hypothesis. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 34, 249-256. [pdf]
Negri, G.A.L., Rumiati, R.I., Zadini, A., Ukmar, M., Mahon, B.Z., & Caramazza, A. (2007). What is the Role of Motor Simulation in Action & Object Recognition? Evidence from Apraxia. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 24, 795-816. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z., Milleville, S., Negri, G.A.L., Rumiati, R.I., Caramazza, A, & Martin, A. (2007). Action-related properties of objects shape object representations in the ventral stream. Neuron, 55, 3, 507-520. [pdf] Supplemental Materials [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z., Costa, A., Peterson, R., Vargas, K., & Caramazza, A. (2007) Lexical selection is not by competition: A reinterpretation of semantic interference & facilitation effects in the picture-word interference paradigm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, & Cognition, 33, 503-535. [pdf]
Caramazza, A., & Mahon, B.Z. (2006). The organization of conceptual knowledge in the brain: the future's past & some future directions. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 23, 13-38. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z., & Caramazza, A. (2005). The orchestration of the sensory-motor systems: Clues from neuropsychology. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 480-494. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2004). Heterogeneity is a fact of category- specific semantic deficits. So? Comments on Rosazza, Imbornone, Zorzi, Farina, Chiavari, & Cappa (2003). Neurocase, 10, 78-83. [pdf]
Capitani, E., Laiacona, M., Mahon, B., & Caramazza, A. (2003). What are the facts of category-specific deficits? A critical review of the clinical evidence. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 213-261. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2003). Constraining questions about the organization & representation of conceptual knowledge. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 20, 433-450. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z. & Caramazza, A. (2003). There are facts…& then there are facts. Reply to Moss & Tyler. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 481-482. [pdf]
Caramazza, A. & Mahon, B.Z. (2003). The organization of conceptual knowledge: the evidence from category-specific semantic deficits. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 325-374. [pdf]
Costa, A, Mahon, B.Z., Savova, V., & Caramazza, A. (2003). Level of categorization effect: A novel effect in the picture-word interference paradigm. Language & Cognitive Processes, 18, 205-233. [pdf]
Mahon, B.Z, & Caramazza, A. (2001). The Sensory/Functional Assumption or the Data: Which do we keep? Behavioral & Brain Sciences, 24, 488-9. [pdf]

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