The automatic translation of folk psychology into newly formed brain modules specifically
dedicated to mind-reading and other social cognitive abilities should be carefully …

Roughly speaking, an abstract concept refers to entities that are neither purely physical nor
spatially constrained. Such concepts pose a classic problem for theories that ground …

Language is central to our lives, the cultural tool that arguably sets us apart from other
species. Some scientists have argued that language is innate, a type of unique …

Page 1 OXFORD Robert D. Rupert Cognitive Systems and the Extended Mind Page 2 Cognitive
Systems and the Extended Mind Page 3 PHILOSOPHY OF MIND SERIES EDITOR David J …

The neural circuits activated in a person carrying out actions, expressing emotions, and
experiencing sensations are activated also, automatically via a mirror neuron system, in the …

Wernicke (1900, as cited in GH Eggert, 1977) suggested that semantic knowledge arises
from the interaction of perceptual representations of objects and words. The authors present …

The processing of spoken language has been attributed to areas in the superior temporal
lobe, where speech stimuli elicit the greatest activation. However, neurobiological and …

Using both the lesion method and functional imaging (positron emission tomography) in
large cohorts of subjects investigated with the same experimental tasks, we tested the …

Why do people so often use metaphorical expressions when literal paraphrases are readily
available? This study focuses on a comparison of metaphorical statements involving the …

The premise of this study is that current models of speech perception, which are driven by
acoustic features alone, are incomplete, and that the role of decoding time during memory …