Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

Over the last decade, there has been an increasing body of work that explores whether
sensory and motor information is a necessary part of semantic representation and …

In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the
organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong …

Mr M, a patient with semantic dementia—a neurodegenerative disease that is characterized
by the gradual deterioration of semantic memory—was being driven through the countryside …

Concepts are the elementary units of reason and linguistic meaning. They are conventional
and relatively stable. As such, they must somehow be the result of neural activity in the brain …

The physical energy that we refer to as a word, whether in isolation or embedded in
sentences, takes its meaning from the knowledge stored in our brains through a lifetime of …

The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Many studies have demonstrated that the sensory and motor systems are activated during
conceptual processing. Such results have been interpreted as indicating that concepts, and …

We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily
adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural …

▪ Abstract Until recently, our understanding of how language is organized in the brain
depended on analysis of behavioral deficits in patients with fortuitously placed lesions. The …