An extensive program of research in the past 2 decades has focused on the role of modal
sensory, motor, and affective brain systems in storing and retrieving concept knowledge …

There are a number of long‐standing theories on how the cognitive processing of abstract
words, like 'life', differs from that of concrete words, like 'knife'. This review considers current …

A growing body of recent convergent evidence indicates that the anterior temporal lobe
(ATL) has connectivity-derived graded differences in semantic function: the ventrolateral …

Website privacy policies often contain ambiguous language that undermines the purpose
and value of privacy notices for site users. This paper compares the impact of different …

In a series of analyses over mega datasets, Jones, Johns, and Recchia (Canadian Journal
of Experimental Psychology, 66 (2), 115–124, 2012) and Johns et al.(Journal of the …

A large number of studies have demonstrated that semantic richness dimensions [eg,
number of features, semantic neighborhood density, semantic diversity, concreteness …

We examine the anatomic basis for abstract and concrete lexical representations in
semantic memory by assessing patients with focal neurodegenerative disease. Prior …

Neuroscientific research on conceptual knowledge based on the grounded cognition
framework has shed light on the organization of concrete concepts into semantic categories …

Prior research has examined how distributional properties of contexts (number of unique
contexts or their informativeness) influence the effort of word recognition. These properties …

We examined how several semantic richness variables contribute to verb meaning, across a
number of tasks. Because verbs can vary in tense, and the manner in which tense is coded …