The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich
variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although …

Although recent research on the neural substrates of word classes has generated some
valuable findings, significant progress has been hindered by insufficient attention to …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

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 …

One of the most controversial issues in the cognitive neuroscience literature on concepts is
whether the motor features of verb meanings are represented in the precentral motor …

According to grounded cognition, words whose semantics contain sensory‐motor features
activate sensory‐motor simulations, which, in turn, interact with spatial responses to produce …

We can predict how an object would look like if we were to see it from different viewpoints.
The brain network governing mental rotation (MR) has been studied using a variety of stimuli …

Many neurocognitive studies on the role of motor structures in action-language processing
have implicitly adopted a “dictionary-like” framework within which lexical meaning is …

Different accounts have been proposed to explain the nature of concept representations.
Embodied accounts claim a key involvement of sensory-motor systems during semantic …

Perspective is a crucial feature for communicating about events. Yet it is unclear how
linguistically encoded perspective relates to cognitive perspective taking. Here, we tested …