Classical cognitive theories hold that word representations in the brain are abstract and
amodal, and are independent of the objects' sensorimotor properties they refer to. An …

Although it is widely accepted that nouns and verbs are functionally independent linguistic
entities, it is less clear whether their processing recruits different brain areas. This issue is …

Abstract Nouns and verbs are fundamental grammatical building blocks of all languages.
Studies of brain-damaged patients and healthy individuals have demonstrated that verb …

Expressive language is complex and involves processing within a distributed network of
cortical regions. Functional MRI and magnetoencephalography (MEG) have identified brain …

Several studies have demonstrated the existence of a link between action observation (AO)
and language. However, the optimizing parameters for this link have not been explored until …

The neural correlates of action language processing are still debated within embodied
cognition research and little is known about the flexible involvement of modality-specific pre …

The perception of co-speech gestures, ie, hand movements that co-occur with speech, has
been investigated by several studies. The results show that the perception of co-speech …

Objective: To relate fractional anisotropy (FA) changes associated with the semantic and
logopenic variants of primary progressive aphasia (PPA) to measures of lexical retrieval …

In the native language, abstract and concrete nouns are represented in distinct areas of the
cerebral cortex. Currently, it is unknown whether this is also the case for abstract and …

Abstract Language production requires that semantic representations are mapped to lexical
representations on the basis of the ongoing context to select the appropriate words. This …