Grounded cognition rejects traditional views that cognition is computation on amodal
symbols in a modular system, independent of the brain's modal systems for perception …

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 …

It has been proposed that hierarchical prediction is a fundamental computational principle
underlying neurocognitive processing. Here, we ask whether the brain engages distinct …

Word co‐occurrence patterns in language corpora contain a surprising amount of
conceptual knowledge. Large language models (LLMs), trained to predict words in context …

A Map to the Magic of Reading Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your
brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the …

Adults can incrementally combine information from speech with astonishing speed to
anticipate future words. Concurrently, a growing body of work suggests that vocabulary …

An extensive program of research in the past 2 decades has focused on the role of modal
sensory, motor, and affective brain systems in storing and retrieving concept knowledge …

Previously, the construct of situated conceptualization developed as an account of how
simulations of conceptual knowledge become situated (Barsalou, 2003a-b, 2005a-b, 2008a …

It is thought that semantic memory represents taxonomic information differently from thematic
information. This study investigated the neural basis for the taxonomic-thematic distinction in …

A thematic relation is a temporal, spatial, causal, or functional relation between things that
perform complementary roles in the same scenario or event. For example, cows and milk are …