The notion that prediction is a fundamental principle of human information processing has
been en vogue over recent years. The investigation of language processing may be …

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

In 1980, the N400 event-related potential was described in association with semantic
anomalies within sentences. When, in 1992, a second waveform, the P600, was reported in …

An extensive program of research in the past 2 decades has focused on the role of modal
sensory, motor, and affective brain systems in storing and retrieving concept knowledge …

Measures of electrical brain activity (event-related potentials, ERPs) have been useful in
understanding language processing for several decades. Extant data suggest that the …

Interaction with everyday objects requires the representation of conceptual object properties,
such as where and how an object is used. What are the neural mechanisms that support this …

Lexical semantic ambiguity is the phenomenon when a word has multiple meanings (eg
'bank'). The aim of this event-related functional MRI study was to identify those brain areas …

To build up coherence between sentences (comprehend discourse), we must draw
inferences, ie activate and integrate information that is not actually stated. We used event …

Semantic judgments involve both representations of meaning plus executive mechanisms
that guide knowledge retrieval in a task-appropriate way. These 2 components of semantic …

We used rapid, event-related fMRI to identify the neural systems underlying object
semantics. During scanning, subjects silently read rapidly presented word pairs (150 msec …