Comprehension of natural language–stories, conversations, text–is very simple for those
doing the comprehending and very complex for cognitive neuroscientists. It also presents a …

Taking the first-person perspective (1PP) centered upon one's own body as opposed to the
third-person perspective (3PP), which enables us to take the viewpoint of someone else, is …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

We investigated grapheme-colour synaesthesia and found that (1) The induced colours led
to perceptual grouping and pop-out,(2) a number rendered invisible through'crowding'or …

Narratives are artefacts of a special kind: they are intentionally crafted devices which fulfil
their story-telling function by manifesting the intentions of their makers. But narrative itself is …

Human self-consciousness as the metarepresentation of ones own mental states and the so-
called theory of mind (TOM) capacity, which requires the ability to model the mental states of …

Publisher Summary In 1994, there were only two dominant noninvasive techniques to offer
insight about the functional organization of language from its brain bases: the behavior of …

Is" right-brain" thought essentially creative, and" left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige
argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive …

Drawing on recent research in neurobiology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and
medicine, this book provides a comprehensive overview of the functions and dysfunctions of …

A quantitative, coordinate-based meta-analysis combined data from 354 participants across
22 fMRI studies and one positron emission tomography (PET) study to identify the …