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 …
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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 …
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P Kuhnke, CA Chapman, VKM Cheung… - Brain Structure and …, 2023 - Springer
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 …
E Yee - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
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 …
Y Zhang, K Han, R Worth, Z Liu - Nature communications, 2020 - nature.com
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 …