The goal of this study is to reintegrate the theory of generative grammar into the cognitive
sciences. Generative grammar was right to focus on the child's acquisition of language as its …

This paper discusses the relevance of the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys and of the
mirror neuron system in humans to a neuroscientific account of primates' social cognition …

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 …

Although this is a time of unprecedented progress in cognitive neuroscience, clinicians who
evaluate and treat frontal lobe dysfunction still face many of the frustrations encountered by …

To further investigate the neural substrates of lexical and conceptual knowledge of actions,
we administered a battery of six tasks to 226 brain-damaged patients with widely distributed …

The Simulation Framework, also known as the Embodied Cognition Framework, maintains
that conceptual knowledge is grounded in sensorimotor systems. To test several predictions …

The sensory–motor account of conceptual processing suggests that modality-specific
attributes play a central role in the organization of object and action knowledge in the brain …

Verbs have two separate levels of meaning. One level reflects the uniqueness of every verb
and is called the “root”. The other level consists of a more austere representation that is …

English uses the same prepositions to describe both spatial and temporal relationships (eg,
at the corner, at 1: 30), and other languages worldwide exhibit similar patterns. These space …

In the cognitive neuroscience literature on the distinction between categorical and
coordinate spatial relations, it has often been observed that categorical spatial relations are …