Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

How is knowledge about the meanings of words and objects represented in the human
brain? Current theories embrace two radically different proposals: either distinct cortical …

Traditionally, concepts are assumed to be situational invariant mental knowledge entities
(conceptual stability), which are represented in a unitary brain system distinct from sensory …

Abstract In Caramazza, Hillis, Rapp, and Romani (1990) we proposed that the various
patterns of impaired performance that have been used to motivate proposals of modality …

Our concepts about objects, states, and events are stored in a cognitive structure termed
semantic memory. There are several types of neurologic disorders that may cause …

One of the most controversial debates in cognitive neuroscience concerns the cortical locus
of semantic knowledge and processing in the human brain. Experimental data revealed the …

Sensory experience elicits complex activity patterns throughout the neocortex. Projections
from the neocortex converge onto the medial temporal lobe (MTL), in which distributed …

Abstract “Embodied” proposals claim that the meaning of at least some words, concepts and
constructions is grounded in knowledge about actions and objects. An alternative …

Understanding the neural representation of semantic concepts is at the core of
understanding human knowledge and experience. Competing cognitive theories suggest …

This paper considers how functional neuro-imaging can be used to investigate the
organization of the semantic system and the limitations associated with this technique. The …