Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods
(behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …

Semantic retrieval involves both (1) automatic spreading activation between highly related
concepts and (2) executive control processes that tailor this activation to suit the current …

Despite a better understanding of the organization of the cortical network underlying the
semantic system, very few data are currently available regarding its anatomo-functional …

Much of our behavior is guided by rules, or prescribed guides for action. In this review, I
consider the current state of knowledge of how rules are learned, stored in the brain, and …

Neurolinguistics: An introduction to spoken language and its disorders by JC Ingram with
five multi-chapter parts is intended as an introduction for students of cognitive science …

BACKGROUND: Childhood sexual abuse (CSA) has been associated with alterations in
brain morphology using region of interest analyses that have focused on stress-sensitive …

Several regions of the posterior-lateral-temporal cortex (PLTC) are reliably recruited when
participants read or listen to action verbs, relative to other word and nonword types. This …