title: The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Neuroscience and Aphasia Research Unit, Division of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, Zochonis Building, Brunswick Street, Manchester, M13 9PL, UK.
authors.forename: Matthew A Lambon
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ralph
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology and York Neuroimaging Centre, Heslington, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Jefferies
authors.affiliation: MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF, UK.|Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Robinson Way, Cambridge, CB2 0QQ, UK.
authors.forename: Karalyn
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Patterson
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1202 W Johnson Street, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy T
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Rogers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology*; D032882:Comprehension / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D012660:Semantics