Abstract concepts are relevant to a wide range of disciplines, including cognitive science,
linguistics, psychology, cognitive, social, and affective neuroscience, and philosophy. This …

Modelling the structure of cognitive systems is a central goal of the cognitive sciences—a
goal that has greatly benefitted from the application of network science approaches. This …

Many but not all cognitive abilities decline during ageing. Some even improve due to lifelong
experience. The critical capacities of attention and executive functions have been widely …

Older adults tend to have a broader vocabulary compared to younger adults–indicating a
richer storage of semantic knowledge–but their retrieval abilities decline with age. Recent …

Research has independently highlighted the roles of semantic memory and associative
abilities in creative thinking. However, it remains unclear how these two capacities relate to …

Computational research suggests that semantic memory, operationalized as semantic
memory networks, undergoes age-related changes. Previous work suggests that concepts in …

Cognitive researchers often carve cognition up into structures and processes. Cognitive
processes operate on structures, like vehicles driving over a map. Language alongside …

While vision-and-language models perform well on tasks such as visual question
answering, they struggle when it comes to basic human commonsense reasoning skills. In …

People undergo many idiosyncratic experiences throughout their lives that may contribute to
individual differences in the size and structure of their knowledge representations …

To date, the application of semantic network methodologies to study cognitive processes in
psychological phenomena has been limited in scope. One barrier to broader application is …