This review discusses the contributions of functional imaging (fMRI/PET) to our
understanding of how action and tool concepts are represented and processed in the …

The theory of embodied semantics for actions specifies that the sensory-motor areas used
for producing an action are also used for the conceptual representation of the same action …

Functional neuroimaging was used to investigate the extent to which category‐specific
semantic deficits in patients can be accounted for in terms of the demands placed on neural …

The neural substrates of semantic representation have been the subject of much
controversy. The study of semantic representations is complicated by difficulty in …

Traditionally, concepts are assumed to be situational invariant mental knowledge entities
(conceptual stability), which are represented in a unitary brain system distinct from sensory …

The capacity to process information in conceptual form is a fundamental aspect of human
cognition, yet little is known about how this type of information is encoded in the brain …

Category‐specific brain activation distinguishing between semantic word types has imposed
challenges on theories of semantic representations and processes. However, existing …

Recent research indicates that sensory and motor cortical areas play a significant role in the
neural representation of concepts. However, little is known about the overall architecture of …

There is a considerable body of neuropsychological and neuroimaging evidence supporting
the distinction between the brain correlates of noun and verb processing. It is however still …

The grounding of concepts in the sensorimotor brain systems is controversially discussed.
Grounded cognition models propose that concepts are represented in modality-specific …