Neurocognitive and neurolinguistics theories make explicit statements relating specialized
cognitive and linguistic processes to specific brain loci. These linking hypotheses are in …

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods
(behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …

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 …

According to embodied cognition theories, higher cognitive abilities depend on the
reenactment of sensory and motor representations. In the first part of this review, we critically …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

One of the most controversial issues in the cognitive neuroscience literature on concepts is
whether the motor features of verb meanings are represented in the precentral motor …

A central question in the cognitive sciences is which role embodiment plays for high-level
cognitive functions, such as conceptual processing. Here, we propose that one reason why …

Recent models of language comprehension have assumed a tight coupling between the
semantic representations of action words and cortical motor areas. We combined functional …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …

It is generally held that noun processing is specifically sub-served by temporal areas, while
the neural underpinnings of verb processing are located in the frontal lobe. However, this …