We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

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 …

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 …

Human thought and language rely on the brain's ability to combine conceptual information.
This fundamental process supports the construction of complex concepts from basic …

Studies of patients with acquired cognitive deficits following brain damage and studies using
contemporary neuroimaging techniques form two distinct streams of research on the neural …

Abstract Language is experienced primarily through one of two mediums—spoken words
and written text. Although substantially different in form, these two linguistic vehicles possess …

Abstract Language comes in utterances in which words are bound together according to a
simple rule-based syntactic computation (merge), which creates linguistic hierarchies of …

Recent work on the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) has lead to substantively different
theoretical branches, of its putative functions, that have in some part developed …

Human brains flexibly combine the meanings of words to compose structured thoughts. For
example, by combining the meanings of “bite,”“dog,” and “man,” we can think about a dog …

A defining aspect of human cognition is the ability to integrate conceptual information into
complex semantic combinations. For example, we can comprehend “plaid” and “jacket” as …