Abstract concepts, like justice and friendship, are central features of our daily lives.
Traditionally, abstract concepts are distinguished from other concepts in that they cannot be …

Evidence from psychology and cognitive neuroscience indicates that the human brain's
semantic system contains several specific subsystems, each representing a particular …

Impaired social cognition is a core deficit in frontotemporal dementia (FTD). It is most
commonly associated with the behavioural-variant of FTD, with atrophy of the orbitofrontal …

The number of databases that provide various measurements of lexical properties for
psycholinguistic research has increased rapidly in recent years. The proliferation of lexical …

Attaching semantic meaning to sensory information received from both inside and outside
our bodies is a fundamental function of the human brain. The theory of Controlled Semantic …

Abstract domains of knowledge may have social origins. However, whether abstract
concepts (ACs) may also differentially affect communicative interaction and conversation …

Neuroscience research has provided evidence that semantic information is stored in a
distributed brain network involved in sensorimotor and linguistic processing. More …

Semantic knowledge includes understanding of objects and their features and also
understanding of the characteristics of events. The hub-and-spoke theory holds that these …

Key unanswered questions for cognitive neuroscience include whether social cognition is
underpinned by specialised brain regions and to what extent it simultaneously depends on …

Multiple representation theories posit that concepts are represented via a combination of
properties derived from sensorimotor, affective, and linguistic experiences. Recently, it has …