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 …

Current views about language are dominated by the idea of arbitrary connections between
linguistic form and meaning. However, if we look beyond the more familiar Indo-European …

Interpreting Figurative Meaning critically evaluates the recent empirical work from
psycholinguistics and neuroscience examining the successes and difficulties associated …

Although much is known about the representation and processing of concrete concepts,
knowledge of what abstract semantics might be is severely limited. In this article we first …

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

Recent research indicates that sensory and motor cortical areas play a significant role in the
neural representation of concepts. However, little is known about the overall architecture of …

We present an account of semantic representation that focuses on distinct types of
information from which word meanings can be learned. In particular, we argue that there are …

How semantic representations are manifest over the brain remains a topic of active debate.
A semantic representation may be determined by specific semantic features (eg …

A standard view of language processing holds that lexical forms are arbitrary, and that non-
arbitrary relationships between meaning and form such as onomatopoeias are unusual …

While major advances have been made in uncovering the neural processes underlying
perceptual representations, our grasp of how the brain gives rise to conceptual knowledge …