Neurobiological mechanisms for semantic feature extraction and conceptual flexibility

F Pulvermüller - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
… remain in a Chinese room of the human mind and brain. … with perceptual-semantic neurons
in the ventral visual stream. A … basic features of neuronal circuit dynamics in order to provide …

Flexible Conceptual Representations

A Truman, M Kutas - Cognitive Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… is that the human conceptual system is malleable, dynamic, … multiple brain areas: Its shape
and color are stored in visual … be represented in a graded fashion in the human mind/brain. …

Time course of brain activity during the processing of motor-and vision-related abstract concepts: flexibility and task dependency

M Harpaintner, NM Trumpp, M Kiefer - Psychological Research, 2022 - Springer
… reflect semantic access and not imagery. Thirdly, we tested whether processing of abstract
concepts is prone to conceptual flexibility and assessed whether a deep conceptual task …

[HTML][HTML] Controlled semantic cognition relies upon dynamic and flexible interactions between the executive 'semantic control'and hub-and-spoke 'semantic …

R Chiou, GF Humphreys, JY Jung, MAL Ralph - cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
visual configuration processing (control task) to conceptual … and ATL were recruited by both
the colour and semantic tasks. … systems in supporting flexible use of semantic knowledge in a …

What does semantic tiling of the cortex tell us about semantics?

LW Barsalou - Neuropsychologia, 2017 - Elsevier
… neuroscience suggests that semantic maps tile the cortex. … , and (5) conceptual flexibility.
Rather than explaining these … Typically, accounts of vision and visual semantics are likely to …

Mapping the dynamic network interactions underpinning cognition: a cTBS-fMRI study of the flexible adaptive neural system for semantics

JY Jung, MA Lambon Ralph - Cerebral Cortex, 2016 - academic.oup.com
… bilateral visual cortex (VC) as seeds, because semantic processing was triggered by visual
… be related to a change in the recruitment of the DMN as general mental resource rather than …

Built to Adapt: Mechanisms of Cognitive Flexibility in the Human Brain

M Hauptman, YF Liu, M Bedny - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
… The human brain is adapted for visual perception. Sighted … The recruitment of visual networks
for cultural skills in blindness is … Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during …

Creative constraints: Brain activity and network dynamics underlying semantic interference during idea production

RE Beaty, AP Christensen, M Benedek, PJ Silvia… - NeuroImage, 2017 - Elsevier
brain activity and network connectivity underlying conceptualVisual stimuli were presented
using E-Prime and viewed … ), which in turn recruited cognitive control circuits to inhibit its …

Linking somatic and symbolic representation in semantic memory: the dynamic multilevel reactivation framework

J Reilly, JE Peelle, A Garcia, SJ Crutch - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2016 - Springer
… of how the human brain conducts abstract symbolic … embodied semantic system represent
abstract concepts such … The role of flexible semantic reconstruction is also supported …

Distance and direction codes underlie navigation of a novel semantic space in the human brain

S Viganò, M Piazza - Journal of Neuroscience, 2020 - Soc Neuroscience
… species is the use of language to organize conceptual … in a specific combination of visual
and audio features) to a … inferences, the key elements of human flexible cognition. Our results, …