Semantic memory refers to knowledge about people, objects, actions, relations, self, and
culture acquired through experience. The neural systems that store and retrieve this …

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 …

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 …

In the past 30 years there has been a growing body of research using different methods
(behavioural, electrophysiological, neuropsychological, TMS and imaging studies) asking …

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 …

Observing actions made by others activates the cortical circuits responsible for the planning
and execution of those same actions. This observation–execution matching system (mirror …

Recent research indicates that sensory and motor cortical areas play a significant role in the
neural representation of concepts. However, little is known about the overall architecture of …

Understanding and responding to other people's actions is fundamental for social
interactions. Whereas many studies emphasize the importance of parietal and frontal …

It is generally accepted that there is something special about reasoning by using mental
images. The question of how it is special, however, has never been satisfactorily spelled out …

Using both the lesion method and functional imaging (positron emission tomography) in
large cohorts of subjects investigated with the same experimental tasks, we tested the …