Lisa L. Conant

The paper investigates how object and event concepts are represented in the brain using fMRI data, finding they share a common representational code based on perceptual and emotional features.

This paper uses semantic priming and representational similarity analysis to show that experiential similarity, not distributional or taxonomic similarity, primarily drives semantic priming in word meaning representation.

The paper uses fMRI data to map brain regions involved in concept retrieval, finding a distributed network encoding multimodal experiential information.

This study decodes lexical semantic information from heteromodal cortical areas, finding that experience-based representations dominate over taxonomic or distributional structures.