In three experiments, participants received nouns or noun phrases for objects and verbally
generated their properties (“feature listing”). Several sources of evidence indicated that …

Recent work has shown that people routinely use perceptual information during language
comprehension and conceptual processing, from single-word recognition to modality …

Analyses of adult semantic networks suggest a learning mechanism involving preferential
attachment: A word is more likely to enter the lexicon the more connected the known words …

Inappropriate social behaviours are early and distinctive symptoms of the temporal and
frontal variants of frontotemporal lobar degeneration (FTLD). Knowledge of social behaviour …

Previous behavioral data suggest that the salience of taxonomic (eg, hammer–saw) and
thematic (eg, hammer–nail) conceptual relations depends on object categories …

Signed languages exploit iconicity (the transparent relationship between meaning and form)
to a greater extent than spoken languages. where it is largely limited to onomatopoeia. In a …

The shared features that characterize the noun categories that young children learn first are
a formative basis of the human category system. To investigate the potential categorical …

Semantic similarity effects provide critical insight into the organization of semantic
knowledge and the nature of semantic processing. In the present study, we examined the …

With regard to hearing perception, it remains unclear as to whether, or the extent to which,
different conceptual categories of real-world sounds and related categorical knowledge are …

Abstract The Uses of Objects Task is a widely used creativity test. The test is usually scored
by humans, which introduces subjectivity and individual variance into creativity scores. Here …