The margins of the language network in the brain

I Hertrich, S Dietrich, H Ackermann - Frontiers in Communication, 2020 - frontiersin.org
This review paper summarizes the various brain modules that are involved in speech and
language communication in addition to a left-dominant “core” language network that, for the …

Social semantics: the organization and grounding of abstract concepts

PM Pexman, V Diveica… - … Transactions of the …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Abstract concepts, like justice and friendship, are central features of our daily lives.
Traditionally, abstract concepts are distinguished from other concepts in that they cannot be …

[图书][B] Cognitive neuroscience of language

D Kemmerer - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
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 …

A large dataset of semantic ratings and its computational extension

S Wang, Y Zhang, W Shi, G Zhang, J Zhang, N Lin… - Scientific Data, 2023 - nature.com
Evidence from psychology and cognitive neuroscience indicates that the human brain's
semantic system contains several specific subsystems, each representing a particular …

A survey of brain network analysis by electroencephalographic signals

C Luo, F Li, P Li, C Yi, C Li, Q Tao, X Zhang, Y Si… - Cognitive …, 2022 - Springer
Brain network analysis is one efficient tool in exploring human brain diseases and can
differentiate the alterations from comparative networks. The alterations account for time …

Non-literal language processing is jointly supported by the language and theory of mind networks: evidence from a novel meta-analytic fMRI approach

M Hauptman, I Blank, E Fedorenko - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
Going beyond the literal meaning of language is key to communicative success. However,
the mechanisms that support non-literal inferences remain debated. Using a novel meta …

Understanding particularized and generalized conversational implicatures: Is theory-of-mind necessary?

W Feng, H Yu, X Zhou - Brain and Language, 2021 - Elsevier
A speaker's intended meaning can be inferred from an utterance with or without reference to
its context for particularized implicature (PI) and/or generalized implicature (GI). Although …

[HTML][HTML] Comprehending stories in pantomime. A pilot study with typically developing children and its implications for the narrative origin of language

I Adornetti, A Chiera, V Deriu, D Altavilla… - Language & …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents a pilot study aimed at investigating the comprehension of pantomimic
stories and its possible cognitive underpinnings in typically developing children. A group of …

Discourse-level comprehension engages medial frontal Theory of Mind brain regions even for expository texts

N Jacoby, E Fedorenko - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
In addition to understanding individual word meanings and processing the syntactic and
semantic dependencies among those words within a sentence, language comprehension …

Coexistence of the social semantic effect and non-semantic effect in the default mode network

G Zhang, J Hung, N Lin - Brain Structure and Function, 2023 - Springer
Neuroimaging studies have found both semantic and non-semantic effects in the default
mode network (DMN), leading to an intense debate on the role of the DMN in semantic …