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 …

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 …

Semantic memory is described as the storage of knowledge, concepts, and information that
is common and relatively consistent across individuals (eg, memory of what is a cup). These …

Semantic memory refers to general knowledge about the world, including concepts, facts,
and beliefs (eg, that a lemon is normally yellow and sour or that Paris is in France). How is …

A key goal for cognitive neuroscience is to understand the neurocognitive systems that
support semantic memory. Recent multivariate analyses of neuroimaging data have …

Current views of semantic memory share the assumption that conceptual representations
are based on multimodal experience, which activates distinct modality-specific brain …

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 …

Contemporary debates on the 'semantic memory'construct revolve around three main
topics:(1) the functional and anatomical relationships between episodic and semantic …

Meaning is a fundamental component of nearly all aspects of human cognition, but formal
models of semantic memory have classically lagged behind many other areas of cognition …

At least since the time of Aristotle, humans have been fascinated with trying to understand
how meaning is represented in what, in modern terms, has come to be known as semantic …