The neurocognitive basis of knowledge about object identity and events: dissociations reflect opposing effects of semantic coherence and control

E Jefferies, H Thompson… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semantic memory encompasses knowledge of specific objects and their diverse
associations, but the mechanisms that allow us to retrieve aspects of knowledge required for …

Multiple functions of the angular gyrus at high temporal resolution

ML Seghier - Brain Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
Here, the functions of the angular gyrus (AG) are evaluated in the light of current evidence
from transcranial magnetic/electric stimulation (TMS/TES) and EEG/MEG studies. 65 …

[HTML][HTML] The role of default mode network in semantic cue integration

L Lanzoni, D Ravasio, H Thompson, D Vatansever… - NeuroImage, 2020 - Elsevier
Recent accounts of large-scale cortical organisation suggest that the default mode network
(DMN) is positioned at the top of a principal gradient, reflecting the separation between …

Both default and multiple-demand regions represent semantic goal information

X Wang, Z Gao, J Smallwood… - Journal of …, 2021 - Soc Neuroscience
We used a semantic feature-matching task combined with multivoxel pattern decoding to test
contrasting accounts of the role of the default mode network (DMN) in cognitive flexibility. By …

The language network is recruited but not required for nonverbal event semantics

AA Ivanova, Z Mineroff, V Zimmerer… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - direct.mit.edu
The ability to combine individual concepts of objects, properties, and actions into complex
representations of the world is often associated with language. Yet combinatorial event-level …

A tale of two gradients: differences between the left and right hemispheres predict semantic cognition

TRJ Gonzalez Alam, BLA Mckeown, Z Gao… - Brain Structure and …, 2022 - Springer
Decomposition of whole-brain functional connectivity patterns reveals a principal gradient
that captures the separation of sensorimotor cortex from heteromodal regions in the default …

[HTML][HTML] Knowing what you need to know in advance: The neural processes underpinning flexible semantic retrieval of thematic and taxonomic relations

M Zhang, D Varga, X Wang, K Krieger-Redwood… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Semantic retrieval is flexible, allowing us to focus on subsets of features and associations
that are relevant to the current task or context: for example, we use taxonomic relations to …

Flexing the principal gradient of the cerebral cortex to suit changing semantic task demands

Z Gao, L Zheng, K Krieger-Redwood, A Halai… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Understanding how thought emerges from the topographical structure of the cerebral cortex
is a primary goal of cognitive neuroscience. Recent work has revealed a principal gradient …

Intracranial EEG evidence of functional specialization for taxonomic and thematic relations

M Thye, J Geller, JP Szaflarski, D Mirman - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
The dual-hub account posits that the neural organization of semantic knowledge is
segregated by the type of semantic relation with anterior temporal lobe (ATL) specializing for …

Controlled semantic summation correlates with intrinsic connectivity between default mode and control networks

M Evans, K Krieger-Redwood, TRJG Alam… - Cortex, 2020 - Elsevier
The capacity to identify aspects of meaning that overlap across multiple concepts may relate
to individual differences in the strength of intrinsic connectivity within and between distinct …