Ken McRae

TL;DR: A set of feature norms collected from approximately 725 participants for 541 living (dog) and nonliving (chair) basic-level concepts, the largest such set of norms developed to date are described, making these norms available to facilitate other research, while obviating the need to repeat the labor-intensive methods involved in collecting and analyzing such norms.

TL;DR: This article explored the time course with which readers use event-specific world knowledge (thematic fit) to resolve structural ambiguity through experiments and implementation of constraint-based and two-stage models.

TL;DR: In this article, the role of correlations among features and differences between speeded and untimed tasks with respect to the use of featural information was explored, and it was shown that the degree to which features are intercorrelated plays an important role in the organization of semantic memory.

TL;DR: In this article, seven trends regarding the categories that tend to be impaired/preserved in category-specific semantic deficits were identified and the authors hypothesized that these trends arise despite the multiple sources of variation in patient testing because numerous factors that structure semantic memory probabilistically converge to make some categories of knowledge more susceptible to damage than others.

TL;DR: It is argued that spatial effects of verb comprehension provide evidence for the perceptual-motor character of linguistic representations, and if comprehending a verb activates a spatial representation that is extended along a particular horizontal or vertical axis, it will affect other forms of spatial processing along that axis.