Semantic cognition refers to our ability to use, manipulate and generalize knowledge that is
acquired over the lifespan to support innumerable verbal and non-verbal behaviours. This …

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 …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

It is widely believed that people have privileged and authoritative access to their own
thoughts, and many theories have been proposed to explain this supposed fact. The Opacity …

Na primeira vez em que me propus a escrever este livro, tanto eu como os meus alunos sa
bíamos o que era necessário haver em um livro didático (ou pelo menos era assim que eu …

Sexual and asexual reproduction are found throughout the plant and animal kingdoms.
Asexual reproduction has its advantages, chief among which is that it does not require the …

Inferior temporal (IT) object representations have been intensively studied in monkeys and
humans, but representations of the same particular objects have never been compared …

Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about
salient properties of an object—such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used …

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 …

This book is a comprehensive development and defense of one of the guiding assumptions
of evolutionary psychology: that the human mind is composed of a large number of semi …