Presents an embodied account of symbolic operations, proceeding from the neural
simulation of concrete concepts to how these relate to abstract concepts and symbols. This …

Abstract words refer to concepts that cannot be directly experienced through our senses (eg
truth, morality). How we ground the meanings of abstract words is one of the deepest …

How are the meanings of words, events, and objects represented and organized in the
brain? This question, perhaps more than any other in the field, probes some of the deepest …

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

We live our lives surrounded by symbols (eg, road signs, logos, but especially words and
numbers), and throughout our life we use them to evoke, communicate and reflect upon …

Across the cognitive sciences, standard theories of knowledge typically adopt the
assumptions of what we call amodal symbol systems. According to this view, in formation in …

There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic
models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling. This …

Biological plausibility is an essential constraint for any viable model of semantic memory.
Yet, we have only the most rudimentary understanding of how the human brain conducts …

Words and sentences are pointers to objects, states, and events, represented mentally in a
format that we designate as semantic and/or conceptual. In truth, we know little about these …

Neuroimaging and patient studies show that different areas of cortex respectively specialize
for general and selective, or category-specific, semantic processing. Why are there both …