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 …

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

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 …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

How is higher cognitive function organized in the human parietal cortex? A century of
neuropsychology and 30 years of functional neuroimaging has implicated the parietal lobe …

Interaction with everyday objects requires the representation of conceptual object properties,
such as where and how an object is used. What are the neural mechanisms that support this …

Semantic knowledge is central to human cognition. The angular gyrus (AG) is widely
considered a key brain region for semantic cognition. However, the role of the AG in …

Recent work on the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) has lead to substantively different
theoretical branches, of its putative functions, that have in some part developed …

Observing others' actions recruits frontoparietal and posterior temporal brain regions–also
called the action observation network. It is typically assumed that these regions support …

The term apraxia refers to 'higher level'disorders of motor control. Apraxia differs from other
motor symptoms of unilateral brain damage by the bilaterality of symptoms following …