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

Tulving characterized semantic memory as a vast repository of meaning that underlies
language and many other cognitive processes. This perspective on lexical and conceptual …

Decoding speech from brain activity is a long-awaited goal in both healthcare and
neuroscience. Invasive devices have recently led to major milestones in this regard: deep …

To tackle a hard problem, it is often wise to reuse and recombine existing knowledge. Such
an ability to bootstrap enables us to grow rich mental concepts despite limited cognitive …

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 …

A key goal for cognitive neuroscience is to understand the neurocognitive systems that
support semantic memory. Recent multivariate analyses of neuroimaging data have …

Each year, people spend less time reading and more time viewing images, which are
proliferating online,–. Images from platforms such as Google and Wikipedia are downloaded …

Abstract Theories of Visual Mental Imagery (VMI) emphasize the processes of retrieval,
modification, and recombination of sensory information from long-term memory. Yet, only …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has emerged as a powerful method for the analysis of
functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography and …