Recent research highlights the influence of (eg, task) context on conceptual retrieval. To
assess whether conceptual representations are context-dependent rather than static, we …

Our mental words are populated with concepts—rich representations of knowledge about
things in the world (eg, diamonds, pumpkins). In language, words are used to refer to these …

Abstract Language mediates most of our social life and yet, despite such social relevance
and ubiquity, little is known about language processing during social interactions. To …

There have been three viewpoints about the role of contexts played in the priming processes
of conceptual knowledge: Some conceptual psychologists claim that priming effects of …

In this event-related potentials study we tested whether sensory-motor relations between
concrete words are encoded by default or only under explicit ad hoc instructions. In Exp. 1 …

The role of modal, or embodied, systems in the semantic representation of abstract
concepts, which are by nature not experienced by the senses, remains unclear. The …

More than half of the Korean lexicon comprises words of Chinese origin. Sino-Korean
words, unlike native Korean words, can be written two different ways, using either the native …