A view that has been gaining prevalence over the past decade is that the human conceptual
system is malleable, dynamic, context‐dependent, and task‐dependent, that is, flexible …

Both scientists and children make important structural discoveries, yet their computational
underpinnings are not well understood. Structure discovery has previously been formalized …

The 15 articles in this special issue on The Representation of Concepts illustrate the rich
variety of theoretical positions and supporting research that characterize the area. Although …

How are the meanings of concepts represented and processed? We present a cognitive
model of conceptual representations and processing—the Conceptual Structure Account …

This theoretical article looks at the process of understanding abstract concepts from the
perspective of distributed models of conceptual representation. According to these models …

One of the most exciting open issues in the cognitive and brain sciences is how conceptual
knowledge is represented and organized in the brain. A recent proliferation of methods that …

An increasingly large body of converging evidence supports the idea that the semantic
system is distributed across brain areas and that the information encoded therein is …

The field of concept formation has been dominated until recently by the abstraction
perspective, which holds that categories are mentally represented by abstract summaries of …

Conceptual representations in long-term memory crucially contribute to perception and
action, language and thought. However, the precise nature of these conceptual memory …

As embodied theories of cognition are increasingly formalized and tested, care must be
taken to make informed assumptions regarding the nature of concepts and representations …