Taxonomic and thematic semantic systems.

D Mirman, JF Landrigan, AE Britt - Psychological bulletin, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Object concepts are critical for nearly all aspects of human cognition, from perception tasks
like object recognition, to understanding and producing language, to making meaningful …

The neurocognitive basis of knowledge about object identity and events: dissociations reflect opposing effects of semantic coherence and control

E Jefferies, H Thompson… - … Transactions of the …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Semantic memory encompasses knowledge of specific objects and their diverse
associations, but the mechanisms that allow us to retrieve aspects of knowledge required for …

Learning, remembering, and predicting how to use tools: Distributed neurocognitive mechanisms: Comment on Osiurak and Badets (2016).

LJ Buxbaum - 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
The reasoning-based approach championed by Francois Osiurak and Arnaud Badets
(Osiurak & Badets, 2016) denies the existence of sensory-motor memories of tool use except …

Features, labels, space, and time: Factors supporting taxonomic relationships in the anterior temporal lobe and thematic relationships in the angular gyrus

CP Davis, E Yee - Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Having the concept coffee involves knowing not only how coffee looks, smells, and tastes,
but also how it relates to other things. We consider two types of conceptual relationships:(1) …

Thematic knowledge, artifact concepts, and the left posterior temporal lobe: Where action and object semantics converge

S Kalénine, LJ Buxbaum - Cortex, 2016 - Elsevier
Converging evidence supports the existence of functionally and neuroanatomically distinct
taxonomic (similarity-based; eg, hammer-screwdriver) and thematic (event-based; eg …

Neural network bases of thematic semantic processing in language production

DS Blackett, J Varkey, J Wilmskoetter, R Roth… - Cortex, 2022 - Elsevier
Semantic processing is a central component of language and cognition. The anterior
temporal lobe is postulated to be a key hub for semantic processing, but the posterior …

[HTML][HTML] Taxonomic and thematic relations rely on different types of semantic features: Evidence from an fMRI meta-analysis and a semantic priming study

Y Zhang, D Mirman, P Hoffman - Brain and language, 2023 - Elsevier
Taxonomic and thematic relations are major components of semantic representation but
their neurocognitive underpinnings are still debated. We hypothesised that taxonomic …

Intracranial EEG evidence of functional specialization for taxonomic and thematic relations

M Thye, J Geller, JP Szaflarski, D Mirman - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
The dual-hub account posits that the neural organization of semantic knowledge is
segregated by the type of semantic relation with anterior temporal lobe (ATL) specializing for …

Looking to recognise: the pre-eminence of semantic over sensorimotor processing in human tool use

G Federico, MA Brandimonte - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
Alongside language and bipedal locomotion, tool use is a characterizing activity of human
beings. Current theories in the field embrace two contrasting approaches:“manipulation …

A saw is first identified as an object used on wood: ERP evidence for temporal differences between Thematic and Functional similarity relations

Y Wamain, E Pluciennicka, S Kalénine - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
The role of functional and motor information in manipulable artifact object semantic
organization is still poorly understood. In particular, several types of semantic relations …