Classical cognitive theories hold that word representations in the brain are abstract and
amodal, and are independent of the objects' sensorimotor properties they refer to. An …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

We outline a dual systems approach to temporal cognition, which distinguishes between two
cognitive systems for dealing with how things unfold over time–a temporal updating system …

In a majority of languages, the time of an event is expressed by marking tense on the verb.
There is substantial evidence that the production of verb tense in sentences is more severely …

Many neurocognitive studies on the role of motor structures in action-language processing
have implicitly adopted a “dictionary-like” framework within which lexical meaning is …

Ecological information offered to society through advertising enhances awareness of
environmental issues, encourages development of sustainable attitudes and intentions, and …

Naturalistic stimuli evoke complex neural responses with spatial and temporal properties
that differ across individuals. Current alignment methods focus on either spatial …

Purpose: Verb tense production is known to be impaired in people with nonfluent aphasia.
Selective past tense impairment in this population has been reported, but results are …

We introduce the concept of goal-directed allostasis (GDA), the mental process that
underlies individuals' deliberate and proactive attempts to maintain the current state of …

Background Cross-linguistic studies on time reference in highly inflected languages have
shown that tense inflection is particularly vulnerable in agrammatic speakers. According to …