First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The issue presents a selection of approaches to the cognitive neuroscience of semantic processing. The term ‘semantics’ covers a range of approaches: perception-based conceptual structures, the impact of concepts such as animacy on syntactically determined meaning, the unification of incoming information in the construction of a discourse model, and the neural correlates of formal operations of sentence-level semantic composition. The issue provides a platform in which the diversity of approaches can be seen in context and compared. The aim of the issue is to delineate pathways along which a well-circumscribed area of research in semantic processing could be pursued.
L. Pylkkanen, J. Brennan, D. Bemis, Grounding the Cognitive Neuroscience
of Semantics in Linguistic Theory. G. Baggio, P. Hagoort, The balance between
memory and unification in semantics: Towards a dynamic account of the n400.
M. Paczynski, G. R. Kuperberg, Electrophysiological Evidence for Use of the
Animacy Hierarchy, but not Thematic Role, Assignment, During Verb Argument
Processing. K.I. Taylor, B. J. Devereux & L.K. Tyler, Conceptual structure:
Towards an integrated neuro-cognitive account. W. Hinzen D. Poeppel,
Semantics between cognitive neuroscience and linguistic theory.
Wolfram Hinzen, University of Durham, UK
David Poeppel, New York University, USA
