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 …

Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

Prior to the twentieth century, theories of knowledge were inherently perceptual. Since then,
developments in logic, statistics, and programming languages have inspired amodal …

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 …

Memory. There may be nothing more important to human beings than our ability to enshrine
experience and recall it. While philosophers and poets have elevated memory to an almost …

How Words Mean introduces a new approach to the role of words and other linguistic units
in the construction of meaning. It does so by addressing the interaction between non …

We claim that the animate and inanimate conceptual categories represent evolutionarily
adapted domain-specific knowledge systems that are subserved by distinct neural …

Four theories of the human conceptual system—semantic memory, exemplar models, feed‐
forward connectionist nets, and situated simulation theory—are characterised and …

This groundbreaking monograph offers a mechanistic theory of the representation and use
of semantic knowledge, integrating the strengths and overcoming many of the weaknesses …

We used fMRI to examine the neural response in frontal and parietal cortices associated
with viewing and naming pictures of different categories of objects. Because tools are …