Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the
organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong …

Mr M, a patient with semantic dementia—a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized
by the gradual deterioration of semantic memory—was being driven through the countryside …

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 …

Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about
salient properties of an object—such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used …

The distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams, first proposed by
Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) and later refined by Milner and Goodale (1995) has been …

Long-standing speculations and more recent hypotheses propose a variety of possible
evolutionary connections between language, gesture and tool use. These arguments have …

How do we know what properties something has, and which of its properties should be
generalized to other objects? How is the knowledge underlying these abilities acquired, and …

Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …