The lateral occipitotemporal cortex in action

A Lingnau, PE Downing - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2015 - cell.com
Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

Metaphor: Bridging embodiment to abstraction

A Jamrozik, M McQuire, ER Cardillo… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2016 - Springer
Embodied cognition accounts posit that concepts are grounded in our sensory and motor
systems. An important challenge for these accounts is explaining how abstract concepts …

[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 …

Prediction during natural language comprehension

RM Willems, SL Frank, AD Nijhof, P Hagoort… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
The notion of prediction is studied in cognitive neuroscience with increasing intensity. We
investigated the neural basis of 2 distinct aspects of word prediction, derived from …

Automatic and controlled semantic retrieval: TMS reveals distinct contributions of posterior middle temporal gyrus and angular gyrus

J Davey, PL Cornelissen, HE Thompson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Semantic retrieval involves both (1) automatic spreading activation between highly related
concepts and (2) executive control processes that tailor this activation to suit the current …

[BOOK][B] Metaphors in the Mind

J Littlemore - 2019 - books.google.com
Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving
through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to'look …

[BOOK][B] Abstract concepts and the embodied mind: Rethinking grounded cognition

G Dove - 2022 - books.google.com
Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Executive semantic processing is underpinned by a large-scale neural network: revealing the contribution of left prefrontal, posterior temporal, and parietal cortex to …

C Whitney, M Kirk, J O'Sullivan… - Journal of cognitive …, 2012 - direct.mit.edu
To understand the meanings of words and objects, we need to have knowledge about these
items themselves plus executive mechanisms that compute and manipulate semantic …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Action concepts in the brain: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

CE Watson, ER Cardillo, GR Ianni… - Journal of cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Many recent neuroimaging studies have investigated the representation of semantic
memory for actions in the brain. We used activation likelihood estimation (ALE) meta …