Semantic cognition refers to our ability to use, manipulate and generalize knowledge that is
acquired over the lifespan to support innumerable verbal and non-verbal behaviours. This …

Despite advances in the new science of connectomics, which aims to comprehensively map
neural connections at both structural and functional levels, techniques to directly study the …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

Semantic cognition requires conceptual representations shaped by verbal and nonverbal
experience and executive control processes that regulate activation of knowledge to meet …

The anterior temporal lobe (ATL) makes a critical contribution to semantic cognition.
However, the functional connectivity of the ATL and the functional network underlying …

How is knowledge about the meanings of words and objects represented in the human
brain? Current theories embrace two radically different proposals: either distinct cortical …

Built upon a wealth of neuroimaging, neurostimulation, and neuropsychology data, a recent
proposal set forth a framework termed controlled semantic cognition (CSC) to account for …

The arcuate fasciculus has been considered a major dorsal fronto-temporal white matter
pathway linking frontal language production regions with auditory perception in the superior …

Considerable evidence from different methodologies has identified the anterior temporal
lobes (ATLs) as key regions for the representation of semantic knowledge. Research interest …

The anterior temporal lobes (ATL) have become a key brain region of interest in cognitive
neuroscience founded upon neuropsychological investigations of semantic dementia (SD) …