Measuring event-related potentials (ERPs) has been fundamental to our understanding of
how language is encoded in the brain. One particular ERP response, the N400 response …

An extensive program of research in the past 2 decades has focused on the role of modal
sensory, motor, and affective brain systems in storing and retrieving concept knowledge …

What happens in our brains when we compose a melody, write a poem, paint a picture, or
choreograph a dance sequence? How is this different from what occurs in the brain when …

Semantic cognition requires a combination of semantic representations and executive
control processes to direct activation in a task-and time-appropriate fashion [Jefferies, E., & …

The thesis of embodied semantics holds that conceptual representations accessed during
linguistic processing are, in part, equivalent to the sensory-motor representations required …

A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …

Although there is no shortage of definitions for pragmatics the received wisdom is
that'pragmatics' simply cannot be coherently defined. In this groundbreaking book Mira Ariel …

Purpose: Evidence for a poor psychiatric, social, and vocational adult outcome in childhood
absence epilepsy (CAE) suggests long‐term unmet mental health, social, and vocational …

“I find people confusing...[because they]... often talk using metaphor, such as he was the
apple of her eye, we had a real pig of a day, they had a skeleton in the cupboard. I think it …

An increasing number of studies have investigated non-literal language, including
metaphors, idioms, metonymy, or irony, with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) …