Semantic memory includes all acquired knowledge about the world and is the basis for
nearly all human activity, yet its neurobiological foundation is only now becoming clear …

Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

Assigning meaning to words, sounds, and objects requires stored conceptual knowledge
plus executive mechanisms that shape semantic retrieval according to the task or context …

Psychopathy is a disorder embedded in mystique, controversy and fantasy. Consistently
portrayed in the media and popular culture as unusual, inhumane and emotionless …

This article considers potential roles of orbital frontal cortex in the modulation of antisocial
behavior. Two forms of aggression are distinguished: reactive aggression elicited in …

A century of investigation into the role of the human frontal lobes in complex cognition,
including language processing, has revealed several interesting but apparently …

The involvement of the left inferior prefrontal cortex (LIPC) in phonological processing is well
established from both lesion-deficit studies with neurological patients and functional …

Fluency tasks have been widely used to tap the voluntary generation of responses. The
anatomical correlates of fluency tasks and their sensitivity and specificity have been hotly …

Neuroscience research has thoroughly studied how nonliteral language is processed during
metaphor comprehension. However, it is not clear how the brain actually creates nonliteral …

We report six patients with clinically diagnosed and electrophysiologically confirmed motor
neurone disease (MND), in whom communication problems were an early and dominant …