Abstract concepts differ from concrete concepts in several ways. Here, we focus on what we
refer to as situational systematicity: The objects and relations that constitute an abstract …

To make sense of the world around us, we must be able to segment a continual stream of
sensory inputs into discrete events. In this review, I propose that in order to comprehend …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

Most words are ambiguous: Individual word forms (eg, run) can map onto multiple different
interpretations depending on their sentence context (eg, the athlete/politician/river runs) …

How do we recollect specific events that have occurred during continuous ongoing
experience? There is converging evidence from non-human animals that spatially …

A long philosophical and linguistic literature on events going back to Aristotle distinguishes
between events that are internally structured in terms of distinct temporal stages leading to …

Logico-semantic theories have long noted parallels between the linguistic representation of
temporal entities (events) and spatial entities (objects): bounded (or telic) predicates such as …

A central aspect of human experience and communication is understanding events in terms
of agent (“doer”) and patient (“undergoer” of action) roles. These event roles are rooted in …

Experimental work has revealed causal links between physical cleansing and various
psychological variables. Empirically, how robust are they? Theoretically, how do they …

Familiar words come with a wealth of associated knowledge about their variety of usage,
accumulated over a lifetime. How do we track and adjust this knowledge as new instances of …