The uncinate fasciculus is a bidirectional, long-range white matter tract that connects lateral
orbitofrontal cortex and Brodmann area 10 with the anterior temporal lobes. Although …

Memory for people and their relationships, along with memory for social language and
social behaviors, constitutes a specific type of semantic memory termed social knowledge …

The roles of the right and left anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) in conceptual knowledge are a
source of debate between 4 conflicting accounts. Possible ATL specializations include:(1) …

Social groups across species rapidly self-organize into hierarchies, where members vary in
their level of power, influence, skill, or dominance. In this review, we explore the nature of …

Extensive research has supported the existence of a specialized face-processing network
that is distinct from the visual processing areas used for general object recognition. The …

Considerable evidence from different methodologies has identified the anterior temporal
lobes (ATLs) as key regions for the representation of semantic knowledge. Research interest …

The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive
neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD) …

Social cognition impairments are pervasive in the frontotemporal dementias (FTD). These
deficits would be triggered by (a) basic emotion and face recognition processes as well as …

Forming new associations is a fundamental process of building our knowledge system. At
the brain level, how prior-knowledge influences acquisition of novel associations has not …

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) during aging is often a harbinger of Alzheimer's disease,
and, therefore, early intervention to preserve cognitive abilities before the MCI symptoms …