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 implications of the discovery of mirroring mechanisms and embodied simulation for
empathetic responses to images in general, and to works of visual art in particular, have not …

Componential theories of lexical semantics assume that concepts can be represented by
sets of features or attributes that are in some sense primitive or basic components of …

The distinction between dorsal and ventral visual processing streams, first proposed by
Ungerleider and Mishkin (1982) and later refined by Milner and Goodale (1995) has been …

Evidence from functional neuroimaging of the human brain indicates that information about
salient properties of an object—such as what it looks like, how it moves, and how it is used …

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 …

Este libro se ha diseñado específicamente para ser utilizado como libro de texto básico en
neuropsicología. En el capítulo inicial, se presenta una revisión histórica del área …

Tool use is a defining feature of human species. Therefore, a fundamental issue is to
understand the cognitive bases of human tool use. Given that people cannot use tools …

Apraxia is a symptom of cerebral lesions that has puzzled clinicians and researchers for
some 100 years. It has engendered many fascinating descriptions and a wide diversity of …

One of the most provocative and exciting issues in cognitive science is how neural specificity
for semantic categories of common objects arises in the functional architecture of the brain …