Taxonomic and thematic semantic systems.

D Mirman, JF Landrigan, AE Britt - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

The neurocognitive basis of knowledge about object identity and events: dissociations reflect opposing effects of semantic coherence and control

E Jefferies, H Thompson… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semantic memory encompasses knowledge of specific objects and their diverse
associations, but the mechanisms that allow us to retrieve aspects of knowledge required for …

Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal cortex in representing actions across vision and language

MF Wurm, A Caramazza - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Both temporal and frontoparietal brain areas are associated with the representation of
knowledge about the world, in particular about actions. However, what these brain regions …

Involvement of the posterior tool processing network during explicit retrieval of action tool and semantic tool knowledge: an fMRI study

M Lesourd, E Reynaud, J Navarro, V Gaujoux… - Cerebral …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Our ability to understand how to interact with familiar objects is supported by conceptual tool
knowledge. Conceptual tool knowledge includes action tool and semantic tool knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] Motor invariants in action execution and perception

F Torricelli, A Tomassini, G Pezzulo, T Pozzo… - Physics of Life …, 2023 - Elsevier
The nervous system is sensitive to statistical regularities of the external world and forms
internal models of these regularities to predict environmental dynamics. Given the inherently …

Doctor, teacher, and stethoscope: neural representation of different types of semantic relations

Y Xu, X Wang, X Wang, W Men, JH Gao… - Journal of …, 2018 - Soc Neuroscience
Concepts can be related in many ways. They can belong to the same taxonomic category
(eg,“doctor” and “teacher,” both in the category of people) or be associated with the same …

Semantic and action tool knowledge in the brain: Identifying common and distinct networks

M Lesourd, M Servant, J Baumard, E Reynaud… - Neuropsychologia, 2021 - Elsevier
Most cognitive models of apraxia assume that impaired tool use results from a deficit
occurring at the conceptual level, which contains dedicated information about tool use …

Learning, remembering, and predicting how to use tools: Distributed neurocognitive mechanisms: Comment on Osiurak and Badets (2016).

LJ Buxbaum - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The reasoning-based approach championed by Francois Osiurak and Arnaud Badets
(Osiurak & Badets, 2016) denies the existence of sensory-motor memories of tool use except …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study

Y Zhang, D Mirman, P Hoffman - Brain and language, 2023 - Elsevier
Taxonomic and thematic relations are major components of semantic representation but
their neurocognitive underpinnings are still debated. We hypothesised that taxonomic …

Features, labels, space, and time: Factors supporting taxonomic relationships in the anterior temporal lobe and thematic relationships in the angular gyrus

CP Davis, E Yee - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Having the concept coffee involves knowing not only how coffee looks, smells, and tastes,
but also how it relates to other things. We consider two types of conceptual relationships:(1) …