Adult semantic memory has been traditionally conceptualized as a relatively static memory
system that consists of knowledge about the world, concepts, and symbols. Considerable …

The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

This article introduces the P-chain, an emerging framework for theory in psycholinguistics
that unifies research on comprehension, production and acquisition. The framework …

Abstract Abstract concepts (“freedom”) differ from concrete ones (“cat”), as they do not have
a bounded, identifiable, and clearly perceivable referent. The way in which abstract …

This article describes the Dual Route Cascaded (DRC) model, a computational model of
visual word recognition and reading aloud. The DRC is a computational realization of the …

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts,
knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first …

This is a Classic Edition of Adrian Wells and Gerald Matthews' award-winning textbook on
attention and emotion, which now includes new section introductions. The book won the …

A long-standing debate in reading research is whether printed words are perceived in a
feedforward manner on the basis of orthographic information, with other representations …

Rethinking Innateness asks the question," What does it really mean to say that a behavior is
innate?" The authors describe a new framework in which interactions, occurring at all levels …