David Kemmerer

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging is used to scan subjects' brains while they made semantic judgments involving five classes of verbs to test several predictions that this theory makes about the neural substrates of verb meanings and extend the understanding of the neuroanatomical distribution of different aspects of verb meaning.

TL;DR: Two experiments using bisyllabic CVCCVC nonsense words that varied in phonotactic probability and stress placement were conducted to examine the influences of phonotact and metrical information on spoken word recognition.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that the retrieval of conceptual knowledge for actions depends on neural systems located in higher-order association cortices of left premotor/prefrontal, parietal, and posterior middle temporal regions is tested and it is proposed that a key function of the sites is to operate as two-way intermediaries between perception and concept retrieval.

TL;DR: The current study goes considerably beyond most previous investigations by providing extensive behavioral and lesion data for an unusually large and diverse sample of brain-damaged patients, and by incorporating multiple measures of verb comprehension.

TL;DR: No studies have satisfied all the criteria necessary to support the more specific neurobiological claims made by the two hypotheses-namely, that each level of verb meaning is associated with mirror neurons in the pertinent brain regions, which would require demonstrating that within those regions the same neuronal populations are engaged during (a) the linguistic processing of particular motor features of verb mean, (b) the execution of actions with the corresponding motor features, and (c) the observation ofactions with the equivalent motor features.