The advent of modern investigative techniques to explore brain function has led to major advances in understanding the neural organization and mechanisms associated with semantic memory‎.‎ This book presents current theories by leading experts in the field on how the human nervous system stores and recalls memory of objects‎,‎ actions‎,‎ words and events‎.‎ Chapters range from models of a specific domain or memory system ‎(‎e‎.‎g‎.‎‎,‎ lexical‎-semantic‎,‎ sensorimotor‎,‎ emotion‎)‎ to multiple modality accounts‎;‎ from encompassing memory representations‎,‎ to processing modules‎,‎ to network structures‎,‎ focusing on studies of both normal individuals and those with brain disease‎.‎ Recent advances in neuro‎-exploratory techniques allow for investigation of semantic memory mechanisms noninvasively in both normal healthy individuals and patients with diffuse or focal brain damage‎.‎ This has resulted in a significant increase in findings relevant to the localization and mechanistic function of brain regions engaged in semantic memory‎,‎ leading to the neural models included here‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ John Hart‎,‎ Michael A‎.‎ Kraut
• Publisher‎:‎ Cambridge University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780521848701