Parkinson's Disease (PD) affects speech in the form of dysphonia and hypokinetic
dysarthria. Multiple studies have evaluated PD's influence on different aspects of speech …

Semantic memory includes all acquired knowledge about the world and is the basis for
nearly all human activity, yet its neurobiological foundation is only now becoming clear …

How brain structures and neuronal circuits mechanistically underpin symbolic meaning has
recently been elucidated by neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neurocomputational …

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether
sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and …

Action and perception are functionally linked in the brain, but a hotly debated question is
whether perception and comprehension of stimuli depend on motor circuits. Brain language …

Many studies have demonstrated that the sensory and motor systems are activated during
conceptual processing. Such results have been interpreted as indicating that concepts, and …

Single words and sentences referring to bodily actions activate the motor cortex. However,
this semantic grounding of concrete language does not address the critical question whether …

Mental representations allow humans to think about, remember and communicate about an
infinite number of concepts. A key question within cognitive psychology is how the mind …

Embodied cognition (EC) underlines that cognition is constrained by the kind of body we
possess, and stresses the importance of action for cognition. In this perspective the body is …

Communication impairment is common in Parkinson's disease (PD) and may have both
motor speech control and cognitive-linguistic underpinnings. The neurobiology of …