In this commentary on Firestone & Scholl's (F&S's) article, we argue that researchers should
use brain-activity modelling to investigate top-down mechanisms. Using functional brain …

During sentence comprehension, real-time identification of a referent is driven both by local,
context-independent lexical information and by more global sentential information related to …

Concepts of positive and negative valence are metaphorically structured in space (eg,
happy is up, sad is down). In fact, coupling a conceptual task (eg, evaluating words as …

The ability of a stimulus to capture visuospatial attention depends on the interplay between
its bottom-up saliency and its relationship to an observer's top-down control set, such that …

Conceptual knowledge is dynamic, fluid, and flexible, changing as a function of contextual
factors at multiple scales. The Covid‐19 pandemic can be considered a large‐scale, global …

Recent research has shown that language comprehension is guided by knowledge about
the organization of objects and events in long-term memory. We use event-related brain …

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 …

Many theories of attention propose that the contents of working memory (WM) can act as an
attentional template, which biases processing in favor of perceptually similar inputs. While …

Is our internal notion of, eg, the object lemon, static? That is, do we have stable semantic
representations that remain constant across time? Most semantic memory researchers still …

Humans associate abstract words with physical stimulus dimensions, such as linking
upward locations with positive concepts (eg, happy= up). These associations manifest both …