Ambrosini Ettore - Department of Neuroscience and Imaging, University "G. d'Annunzio", Chieti, Italy , Fairfield Beth - Department of Psychological, Humanistic and Territorial Sciences, University "G.

This division reflects the model of sensorial-functional memory proposed several years ago, to explain how semantic memory works. According to this approach, there is a part of semantic memory, the ...

Semantic memory is fairly common in the animal kingdom; chimpanzees can use it to memorize words and dogs can use it to associate commands with the actions they need to perform.

Now, using voxel-based mapping, a team of UC Berkeley researchers have pinned down the brain regions where we handle certain topics and ideas (Opens in a new window): a 3D semantic atlas of the ...