Abstract Language is an essential higher cognitive function in humans and is often affected
by psychiatric and neurological disorders. Objective measures like the verbal fluency test …

Natural language is characterized by structured, hierarchical relationships between
morphemes, some of which can span an unbounded amount of intervening material …

The brain is thought to combine linguistic knowledge of words and nonlinguistic knowledge
of their referents to encode sentence meaning. However, functional neuroimaging studies …

This is the first workshop to be held on this emerging topic, which integrates recent
advances in computational linguistics and cognitive neuroscience with the latest methods …

How is semantic information stored in the human mind and brain? Some philosophers and
cognitive scientists argue for vectorial representations of concepts, where the meaning of a …

Neuroimaging studies have identified multiple brain regions that are associated with
semantic and syntactic processing when comprehending language. However, existing …

Neural network models of language have long been used as a tool for developing
hypotheses about conceptual representation in the mind and brain. For many years, such …

The meaning of a sentence can be understood, whether presented in written or spoken form.
Therefore, it is highly probable that brain processes supporting language comprehension …

Efforts to understand the brain bases of language face the Mapping Problem: At what level
do linguistic computations and representations connect to human neurobiology? We review …