Discriminating taxonomic categories and domains in mental simulations of concepts of varying concreteness

AJ Anderson, B Murphy, M Poesio - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2014 - direct.mit.edu
Most studies of conceptual knowledge in the brain focus on a narrow range of concrete
conceptual categories, rely on the researchers' intuitions about which object belongs to …

Attention to distinct goal-relevant features differentially guides semantic knowledge retrieval

GK Hanson, EG Chrysikou - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
A critical aspect of conceptual knowledge is the selective activation of goal-relevant aspects
of meaning. Although the contributions of ventrolateral prefrontal and posterior temporal …

[PDF][PDF] On discriminating fMRI representations of abstract WordNet taxonomic categories

AJ Anderson, T Yuan, B Murphy… - Proceedings of the 3rd …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
How abstract knowledge is organised is a key question in cognitive science, and has clear
repercussions for the design of artifical lexical resources, but is poorly understood. We …