Current accounts of spoken language assume the existence of a lexicon where wordforms
are stored and interact during spoken language perception, understanding and production …

Abstract We conducted an Activation Likelihood Estimation (ALE) meta-analysis to identify
brain regions that are recruited by linguistic stimuli requiring relatively demanding semantic …

The brain networks supporting speech identification and comprehension under difficult
listening conditions are not well specified. The networks hypothesized to underlie effortful …

According to embodied theories of language, people understand a verb like throw, at least in
part, by mentally simulating throwing. This implicit simulation is often assumed to be similar …

Semantic judgments involve both representations of meaning plus executive mechanisms
that guide knowledge retrieval in a task-appropriate way. These 2 components of semantic …

Children who are poor readers usually experience troublesome school careers and
consequently often suffer from secondary emotional and behavioural problems. Early …

Although the neural systems supporting single word reading are well studied, there are
limited direct comparisons between typical and dyslexic readers of the neural correlates of …

This study investigated metaphor comprehension in the broader context of task-difference
effects and manipulation of processing difficulty. We predicted that right hemisphere …

Meaningful gestures enhance speech comprehensibility. However, their role during novel-
word acquisition remains elusive. Here we investigate how meaningful versus meaningless …

Categorization is a basic principle of knowledge organization in the brain. The goal of the
current fMRI study was to compare the neural correlates of thematic (eg, car-garage) and …