Although semantic processing has traditionally been associated with brain responses
maximal at 350–400 ms, recent studies reported that words of different semantic types elicit …

We seem to learn and use concepts in a variety of heterogenous “formats”, including
exemplars, prototypes, and theories. Different strategies have been proposed to account for …

Recent evidence suggests an interaction between the ventral visual-perceptual and dorsal
visuo-motor brain systems during the course of object recognition. However, the precise …

Executive–semantic control and action understanding appear to recruit overlapping brain
regions but existing evidence from neuroimaging meta-analyses and neuropsychology lacks …

It is an open question whether the motor system is involved during understanding of
concrete nouns, as it is for concrete verbs. To clarify this issue, we carried out a behavioral …

The embodied view of language comprehension proposes that the meaning of words is
grounded in perception and action rather than represented in abstract amodal symbols …

Recent work has focussed on how patterns of functional change within the temporal lobe
relate to whole-brain dimensions of intrinsic connectivity variation (Margulies et al., 2016) …

That similar words can prime one another is not news. However, this phenomenon can be
exploited to make inferences about the organization of conceptual representations. What …

The notion that processing spoken (object) words involves activation of category-specific
representations in visual cortex is a key prediction of modality-specific theories of …

Expertise offers a unique insight into how our brain functions. The purpose of this
experiment was to determine if motor system activity and functional connectivity between the …