Taxonomic and thematic semantic systems.

D Mirman, JF Landrigan, AE Britt - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

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 …

GazeR: A package for processing gaze position and pupil size data

J Geller, MB Winn, T Mahr, D Mirman - Behavior research methods, 2020 - Springer
Eye-tracking is widely used throughout the scientific community, from vision science and
psycholinguistics to marketing and human-computer interaction. Surprisingly, there is little …

[HTML][HTML] Brain signatures of embodied semantics and language: A consensus paper

L Bechtold, SH Cosper, A Malyshevskaya… - Journal of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Shared and distinct neuroanatomic regions critical for tool-related action production and recognition: evidence from 131 left-hemisphere stroke patients

LY Tarhan, CE Watson, LJ Buxbaum - Journal of Cognitive …, 2015 - direct.mit.edu
The inferior frontal gyrus and inferior parietal lobe have been characterized as human
homologues of the monkey “mirror neuron” system, critical for both action production (AP) …

Drivers of lexical processing and implications for early learning

A Borovsky - Annual review of developmental psychology, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Understanding words in unfolding speech requires the coordination of many skills to support
successful and rapid comprehension of word meanings. This multifaceted ability emerges …

Thematic knowledge, artifact concepts, and the left posterior temporal lobe: Where action and object semantics converge

S Kalénine, LJ Buxbaum - Cortex, 2016 - Elsevier
Converging evidence supports the existence of functionally and neuroanatomically distinct
taxonomic (similarity-based; eg, hammer-screwdriver) and thematic (event-based; eg …

Assessing abstract thought and its relation to language with a new nonverbal paradigm: Evidence from aphasia

P Langland-Hassan, FR Faries, M Gatyas, A Dietz… - Cognition, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, language has been shown to play a number of important cognitive roles
over and above the communication of thoughts. One hypothesis gaining support is that …

Early sensitivity of left perisylvian cortex to relationality in nouns and verbs

A Williams, S Reddigari, L Pylkkänen - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
The ability to track the relationality of concepts, ie, their capacity to encode a relationship
between entities, is one of the core semantic abilities humans possess. In language …

Semantic memory

E Yee, MN Jones, K McRae - The Stevens' handbook of experimental …, 2018 - ir.lib.uwo.ca
How is it that we know what a dog and a tree are, or, for that matter, what knowledge is? Our
semantic memory consists of knowledge about the world, including concepts, facts and …