The neural and computational bases of semantic cognition

By M. L. Lambon Ralph, Elizabeth Jefferies, Karalyn Patterson, Timothy T. Rogers. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2016

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Associative Multichannel Autoencoder for Multimodal Word Representation (2018, background): “Moreover, various theories state that the different sources of information contribute differently to the semantic representation of a concept (Wang et al., 2010; Ralph et al., 2017).”
• Towards a Universal Taxonomy of Macro-scale Functional Human Brain Networks (2019, positive): “2019) for its role in semantic cognition (Ralph et al. 2017) and narrative comprehension and construction (Mar 2004, 2011).”
• Dynamic Causal Tractography Analysis of Auditory Descriptive Naming: An Intracranial Study of 106 Patients (2025, unknown): “…fasciculus (SLF), inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF), inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), frontal aslant fasciculus, and uncinate fasciculus (Catani et al., 2005; Mandonnet et al., 2007; Dick and Tremblay, 2012; Friederici and Gierhan, 2013; Chang et al., 2015; Ralph et al., 2017).”
• Time course of EEG power during creative problem‐solving with insight or remote thinking (2021, background): “Previous studies have identified different temporal regions as key brain areas for semantic processing (Binder et al., 2009; Hickok & Poeppel, 2004; Ralph et al., 2017; Visser et al., 2012) with distinct roles for regions along the rostro-caudal and supero-inferior axes (Ralph et al., 2017).”
• Neural Mechanisms of Bidirectional Visuo‐Linguistic Transformation in Interactive Communication (2026, unknown): “…on semantic control identifies a suitable candidate: the Semantic Control Network (SCN), comprising the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), posterior inferior temporal gyrus (pITG), and inferior parietal cortex (IPL/IPS) (Ralph et al. 2017; Wang et al. 2024).”
• Mindscape-Aware Retrieval Augmented Generation for Improved Long Context Understanding (2025, unknown): “The controlled semantic cognition (CSC) framework (Ralph et al., 2017) U pool ← ∅ 10: for q ′ in q aug do 11: U pool ← U pool ∪ RetrieveTopK ( E s , q ′ , U, k ) 12: end for 13: U cand ← VoteAndSelectTopK ( U pool , k ) 14: ▷ LLM-driven Refinement 15: ˜ U i ← LLM t ( q i , a i , U cand ) ▷ See Fig.”