Semantic memory encompasses knowledge of specific objects and their diverse
associations, but the mechanisms that allow us to retrieve aspects of knowledge required for …

Several clinical studies have reported a double dissociation between abstract and concrete
concepts, suggesting that they are processed by at least partly different networks in the …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Human Memory, 4th edition, provides a comprehensive overview of research and theory on
human memory. Written in an engaging style, the book is divided into three sections …

Semantic knowledge is central to human cognition. The angular gyrus (AG) is widely
considered a key brain region for semantic cognition. However, the role of the AG in …

Both temporal and frontoparietal brain areas are associated with the representation of
knowledge about the world, in particular about actions. However, what these brain regions …

It is increasingly apparent that sensorimotor information is a constitutive part of conceptual
knowledge. Yet all concepts, even highly concrete ones (eg dog) include information that is …

In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about
how it connects different concepts and infers semantic relations. To address this question …

The associative theory posits that creativity relates to people's ability to connect remote
associations to form new ideas, based on the structure of their semantic memory. This theory …