Not everything is the same: Some things are worse than others: A response to Tesak

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Author	Hillis, Argye E. Caramazza, Alfonso
Copyright Year	1992
Abstract	In his paper “Everything is the same: A note on Caramazza and Hillis (1989) The disruption of sentence production: Some dissociations,” Tesak (this volume) has raised a number of issues concerning the use of data to test models of cognitive processing. He takes issue with the methodology we have chosen for informing models of the cognitive processes underlying specific language tasks. In particular, Tesak has found lacking in our studies a systematic method of determining which differences in levels of performance are important differences. He also questions the model of sentence processing we adopted in order to explain the pattern of performance in sentence production tasks by a patient, ML, in our 1989 paper. He goes on to offer an alternative hypothesis that he believes provides a more satisfactory account of the data we presented. In this response, we recount the crucial issues that Tesak has raised and explore the extent to which we have dealt with these issues appropriately in the studies he has cited. We also look briefly at the adequacy of Tesak’s alternative hypothesis in providing a solution to the problems we have faced in this research. The central point in Tesak’s criticism is that in our work we have not specified a priori criteria for determining whether an observed variation in performance is important. This issue is obviously not specific to case studies of brain-damaged patients nor to neuropsychological research more generally; it is a problem common to virtually all research. This issue has, therefore, received a great deal of attention in the scientific literature,
Starting Page	519
Ending Page	527
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DOI	10.1016/0093-934X(92)90116-V
PubMed reference number	1446217
Journal	Medline
Volume Number	43
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Journal	Brain and Language
Language	English
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