Open call for abstracts for Special Issue of Cognitive Neuropsychology: Conceptual Knowledge Representation

This is an open call for original research, reviews, and commentaries associated with representations ofconceptual knowledge in the mind and brain.For the purposes of this Special Issue, conceptual knowledge refers to the knowledge by which weunderstand, make inferences, and produce statements about objects, actions, events, settings, humansocial roles and interactions, and their states or properties.Target topics include:1. Neural theories of conceptual knowledge representation, e.g. how are individual brain systemsand networks of systems involved in the representation of specific types, aspects, or features ofconceptual knowledge?2. Cognitive theories of conceptual knowledge representation, e.g. what representationalschemes are supported by the data?3. Individual differences in conceptual knowledge representation, e.g. which aspects of thecognitive or neural representational schemes are common or variable across individuals, andwhich aspects are stable or variable over time?4. Context and compositionality in conceptual knowledge representation, e.g. how does thecognitive or neural representation of a concept vary as a function of its semantic context orcombination with other concepts?5. Resolving converging and/or diverging evidence from different domains, e.g. how can evidencefrom different domains – various neural recording methods, cognitive psychology,neuropsychological case study, computational modeling, and formal semantics – be integratedwith one another?Abstract...

Source: Talking Brains - July 22, 2014 Category: Neurologists Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs