Inner speech as language process and cognitive tool

C Fernyhough, AM Borghi - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Many people report a form of internal language known as inner speech (IS). This review
examines recent growth of research interest in the phenomenon, which has broadly …

[HTML][HTML] Meta-analytic evidence for a novel hierarchical model of conceptual processing

P Kuhnke, MC Beaupain, J Arola, M Kiefer… - Neuroscience & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …

Varieties of abstract concepts and their multiple dimensions

C Villani, L Lugli, MT Liuzza, AM Borghi - Language and Cognition, 2019 - cambridge.org
The issue of how abstract concepts are represented is widely debated. However, evidence
is controversial, also because different criteria were used to select abstract concepts–for …

[BOOK][B] Cognitive neuroscience of language

D Kemmerer - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

[HTML][HTML] Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI

G Pezzulo, T Parr, P Cisek, A Clark, K Friston - Trends in Cognitive …, 2024 - cell.com
Prominent accounts of sentient behavior depict brains as generative models of organismic
interaction with the world, evincing intriguing similarities with current advances in generative …

Above and beyond the concrete: The diverse representational substrates of the predictive brain

M Gilead, Y Trope, N Liberman - Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 2020 - cambridge.org
In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Biological constraints on neural network models of cognitive function

F Pulvermüller, R Tomasello… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Neural network models are potential tools for improving our understanding of complex brain
functions. To address this goal, these models need to be neurobiologically realistic …

What we mean when we say semantic: Toward a multidisciplinary semantic glossary

J Reilly, C Shain, V Borghesani, P Kuhnke… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2024 - Springer
Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies
language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual …

[HTML][HTML] A future of words: Language and the challenge of abstract concepts

AM Borghi - Journal of Cognition, 2020 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The paper outlines one of the most important challenges that embodied and grounded
theories need to face, ie, that to explain how abstract concepts (abstractness) are acquired …

Abstract concepts and emotion: Cross-linguistic evidence and arguments against affective embodiment

B Winter - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
How are abstract concepts such as 'freedom'and 'democracy'represented in the mind? One
prominent proposal suggests that abstract concepts are grounded in emotion. Supporting …