Conceptual knowledge plays a pivotal role in human cognition. Grounded cognition theories
propose that concepts consist of perceptual-motor features represented in modality-specific …

A key goal for cognitive neuroscience is to understand the neurocognitive systems that
support semantic memory. Recent multivariate analyses of neuroimaging data have …

Decoding speech from brain activity is a long-awaited goal in both healthcare and
neuroscience. Invasive devices have recently led to major milestones in this regard: deep …

To tackle a hard problem, it is often wise to reuse and recombine existing knowledge. Such
an ability to bootstrap enables us to grow rich mental concepts despite limited cognitive …

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 …

Each year, people spend less time reading and more time viewing images, which are
proliferating online,–. Images from platforms such as Google and Wikipedia are downloaded …

According to the popular Grounded Cognition Model (GCM), the sensory and motor features
of concepts, including word meanings, are stored directly within neural systems for …

Multivariate pattern analysis (MVPA) has emerged as a powerful method for the analysis of
functional magnetic resonance imaging, electroencephalography and …

According to embodied theories (including embodied, embedded, extended, enacted,
situated, and grounded approaches to cognition), language representation is intrinsically …

Abstract Dual Coding Theories (DCT) suggest that meaning is represented in the brain by a
double code: a language-derived code in the Anterior Temporal Lobe (ATL) and a sensory …