The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

MAL Ralph, E Jefferies, K Patterson… - Nature reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Semantic cognition refers to our ability to use, manipulate and generalize knowledge that is
acquired over the lifespan to support innumerable verbal and non-verbal behaviours. This …

A unifying account of angular gyrus contributions to episodic and semantic cognition

GF Humphreys, MAL Ralph, JS Simons - Trends in neurosciences, 2021 - cell.com
The angular gyrus (AG) region of lateral parietal cortex has been implicated in a wide variety
of tasks and functions, generating numerous influential theories. However, these theories …

Functional anatomy of the inferior longitudinal fasciculus: from historical reports to current hypotheses

G Herbet, I Zemmoura, H Duffau - Frontiers in neuroanatomy, 2018 - frontiersin.org
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 …

An ecologically motivated image dataset for deep learning yields better models of human vision

J Mehrer, CJ Spoerer, EC Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Deep neural networks provide the current best models of visual information processing in
the primate brain. Drawing on work from computer vision, the most commonly used networks …

Revisiting the functional anatomy of the human brain: toward a meta-networking theory of cerebral functions

G Herbet, H Duffau - Physiological Reviews, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory

JB Mahr, G Csibra - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2018 - cambridge.org
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 …

Metaphor comprehension: A critical review of theories and evidence.

KJ Holyoak, D Stamenković - Psychological bulletin, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
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 …

Stimulation mapping of white matter tracts to study brain functional connectivity

H Duffau - Nature Reviews Neurology, 2015 - nature.com
Despite advances in the new science of connectomics, which aims to comprehensively map
neural connections at both structural and functional levels, techniques to directly study the …

Primary progressive aphasia and the evolving neurology of the language network

MM Mesulam, EJ Rogalski, C Wieneke… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is caused by selective neurodegeneration of the
language-dominant cerebral hemisphere; a language deficit initially arises as the only …

Going beyond inferior prefrontal involvement in semantic control: evidence for the additional contribution of dorsal angular gyrus and posterior middle temporal cortex

KA Noonan, E Jefferies, M Visser… - Journal of cognitive …, 2013 - direct.mit.edu
Semantic cognition requires a combination of semantic representations and executive
control processes to direct activation in a task-and time-appropriate fashion [Jefferies, E., & …