The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) is a long-range, associative white matter pathway
that connects the occipital and temporal-occipital areas of the brain to the anterior temporal …

We review psychological research bearing on major theories of metaphor comprehension. A
broad survey of behavioral studies is coupled with findings from recent meta-analyses of …

Episodic memory has been analyzed in a number of different ways in both philosophy and
psychology, and most controversy has centered on its self-referential, autonoetic character …

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

Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

For over two decades, interactions between brain regions have been measured in humans
by asking how the univariate responses in different regions co-vary ('Functional …

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 …

Semantic dementia, a circumscribed disorder of semantic knowledge, provides a unique
model for understanding the neural basis for semantic representation. The study addressed …

Creative cognition requires mental exploration of remotely connected concepts while
suppressing dominant ones. Across four experiments using different samples of participants …

The presence and degree of specialization between the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) is a
key issue in debates about the neural architecture of semantic memory. Here, we …