For nearly two decades, functional neuroimaging studies have attempted to shed light on
questions about the representation, organization, and retrieval of semantic knowledge. This …

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The Psychology of Language is a thorough revision and update of the popular second
edition. It contains everything the student needs to know about the psychology of language …

Reflecting recent changes in the way cognition and the brain are studied, this thoroughly
updated fourth edition of this bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive and student …

Wernicke (1900, as cited in GH Eggert, 1977) suggested that semantic knowledge arises
from the interaction of perceptual representations of objects and words. The authors present …

Three theories currently compete to explain the conceptual deficits that result from brain
damage: sensory-functional theory, domain-specific theory, and conceptual structure theory …

A prevailing neurobiological theory of semantic memory proposes that part of our knowledge
about concrete, highly imageable concepts is stored in the form of sensory–motor …

Many cognitive psychological, computational, and neuropsychological approaches to the
organisation of semantic memory have incorporated the idea that concepts are, at least …

Two themes about the conceptual system are developed:(1) modal simulations underlie
conceptual processing;(2) conceptual representations are situated. The construct of situated …

Increasing evidence suggests that mundane knowledge about objects, people, and events
is grounded in the brain's modality-specific systems. The modality-specific representations …