Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions.

By Markus Kiefer, Friedemann Pulvermüller. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior, 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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How Language Programs the Mind (2016, background): “But the recurring empirical result is that understanding a word involves, to varying extent, representing the real-world referents of that word (Evans, 2009; Kiefer & Pulverm€ uller, 2012).”
The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking: Self-Reported Reductions in Cognitive Effort and Confidence Effects From a Survey of Knowledge Workers (2025, positive): “Cognitive science shows that effective learning requires “grounding” information through multiple perspectives and examples [10, 11, 68], and GenAI can offer personalised analogies to aid this process [77, 90].”
The neuroscience of conceptual learning in science and mathematics (2016, background): “That said, ‘conceptual’ knowledge is located in broad distributed networks [28] involving many parts of the brain, including: (1) overlapping but partly distinct neural systems for processing concrete and abstract concepts, with greater involvement of bilateral association areas during concrete word”
Intentions and Motor Representations: the Interface Challenge (2017, background): “TMS to hand and foot areas of the motor cortex improved the recognition of handrelated (‘pick’) and foot-related (‘kick’) action verbs respectively in lexical decision tasks (Pulvermüller et al. 2005; see also Kiefer and Pulvermüller 2012).”
How reading comprehension is embodied and why that matters (2011, background): “There is a large and growing literature supporting the claims of simulation theory (for reviews see Glenberg, 2007; Kiefer & Pulvermüller, 2011; Fischer & Zwaan, 2008).”
Embodiment theory and education: The foundations of cognition in perception and action (2012, background): “Embodiment theories, which receive increasing empirical support from behavioral and neuroscientific studies (for an overview, see [21,22]), propose close links between the sensory and motor brain systems on the one hand and cognition on the other hand.”
Monitoring the growth of the neural representations of new animal concepts (2014, background): “…of new multivoxel representations) that newly acquired concept knowledge comes to reside in brain regions previously shown to underlie a particular type of knowledge [for a review of theories of semantic representation in the brain see Meteyard et al., 2010 and Kiefer and Pulverm€uller, 2012].”