Abstract concepts, like justice and friendship, are central features of our daily lives.
Traditionally, abstract concepts are distinguished from other concepts in that they cannot be …

Recent accounts of large-scale cortical organisation suggest that the default mode network
(DMN) is positioned at the top of a principal gradient, reflecting the separation between …

Conceptual knowledge is central to cognition. Previous neuroimaging research indicates
that conceptual processing involves both modality-specific perceptual-motor areas and …

Impaired social cognition is a core deficit in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). It is most
commonly associated with the behavioural-variant of FTD, with atrophy of the orbitofrontal …

Introduction A central feature of schizophrenia is the disorganization and impoverishment of
language. Recently, we observed higher semantic similarity in first-episode-schizophrenia …

Semantic control is the capability to operate on meaningful representations, selectively
focusing on certain aspects of meaning while purposefully ignoring other aspects based on …

Cancel culture has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. It follows a typical
process, usually unfolding on the internet: When a public figure says or does something …

Semantic retrieval is flexible, allowing us to focus on subsets of features and associations
that are relevant to the current task or context: for example, we use taxonomic relations to …

Our understanding about the functionality of the brain's default network (DN) has
significantly evolved over the past decade. Whereas traditional views define this network …

Semantic knowledge includes understanding of objects and their features and also
understanding of the characteristics of events. The hub-and-spoke theory holds that these …