The paper introduces a new perspective on abstract concepts (eg “freedom”) and their
associate words representation, the Words As social Tools (WAT) view. Traditional theories …

Abstract concepts play a central role in human behaviour and constitute a critical component
of the human conceptual system. Here, we investigate the neural basis of four types of …

Human adults recruit distinct networks of brain regions to think about the bodies and minds
of others. This study characterizes the development of these networks, and tests for …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

In recent years, scientists have increasingly taken to investigate the predictive nature of
cognition. We argue that prediction relies on abstraction, and thus theories of predictive …

In this quantitative review, we specified the anatomical basis of brain activity reported in the
Temporo‐Parietal Junction (TPJ) in Theory of Mind (ToM) research. Using probabilistic brain …

Emotional experience (EE) and trait emotional awareness (tEA) have recently become
topics of considerable experimental/theoretical interest within the cognitive and neural …

Our thoughts depend on knowledge about objects, people, properties, and events. To think
about where we left our keys, what we are going to make for dinner, when we last fed the …

Actions can be planned and recognized at different hierarchical levels, ranging from very
specific (eg, to swim backstroke) to very broad (eg, locomotion). Understanding the …

In the brain, the semantic system is thought to store concepts. However, little is known about
how it connects different concepts and infers semantic relations. To address this question …