The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

Matthew A Lambon Ralph; Elizabeth Jefferies; Karalyn Patterson; Timothy T. Rogers

doi:10.1038/nrn.2016.150

The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

Matthew A Lambon Ralph^*, Elizabeth Jefferies, Karalyn Patterson, Timothy T. Rogers

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Semantic cognition refers to our ability to use, manipulate and generalize knowledge that is acquired over the lifespan to support innumerable verbal and non-verbal behaviours. This Review summarizes key findings and issues arising from a decade of research into the neurocognitive and neurocomputational underpinnings of this ability, leading to a new framework that we term controlled semantic cognition (CSC). CSC offers solutions to long-standing queries in philosophy and cognitive science, and yields a convergent framework for understanding the neural and computational bases of healthy semantic cognition and its dysfunction in brain disorders.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	42-55
Number of pages	14
Journal	Nature Reviews Neuroscience
Volume	18
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn.2016.150
Publication status	Published - 15 Dec 2016

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