Graded constraints in semantic cognition: How do we retrieve knowledge in a flexible way?

Project Information

FLEXSEM

Grant agreement ID: 771863

DOI 10.3030/771863

EC signature date 21 March 2018

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 30 September 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 999 860,00

EU contribution € 1 999 860,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY OF YORK
United Kingdom

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

Knowing what you need to know in advance: The neural processes underpinning flexible semantic retrieval of thematic and taxonomic relations.

Author(s): Meichao Zhang, Dominika Varga, Xiuyi Wang, Katya Krieger-Redwood, Andre Gouws, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: NeuroImage, 2021, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117405

A Structure-Function Substrate of Memory for Spatial Configurations in Medial and Lateral Temporal Cortices.

Author(s): Shahin Tavakol; Qiongling Li; Jessica Royer; Reinder Vos de Wael; Sara Larivière; Alex Lowe; Casey Paquola; Elizabeth Jefferies; Tom Hartley; Andrea Bernasconi; Neda Bernasconi; Jonathan Smallwood; Véronique D. Bohbot; Lorenzo Caciagli; Lorenzo Caciagli; Boris C. Bernhardt
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab001

Reduced semantic control in older adults is linked to intrinsic DMN connectivity

Author(s): Katya Krieger-Redwood, Hao-Ting Wang, Giulia Poerio, Léa M. Martinon, Leigh M. Riby, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 132, 2019, Page(s) 107133, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.107133

A gradient from long-term memory to novel cognition: graded transitions through default mode and executive cortex

Author(s): Wang, Xiuyi; Margulies, Daniel S.; Smallwood, Jonathan; Jefferies, Elizabeth
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 220, 2020, Page(s) 117074, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117074

Controlled semantic summation correlates with intrinsic connectivity between default mode and control networks

Author(s): Megan Evans, Katya Krieger-Redwood, Tirso RJ. Gonzalez Alam, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cortex, Issue 129, 2020, Page(s) 356-375, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.04.032

Flexing the principal gradient of the cerebral cortex to suit changing semantic task demands

Author(s): Zhiyao Gao; Li Zheng; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Ajay Halai; Daniel S. Margulies; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: eLife, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.14.491226

Hello, is that me you are looking for? A re-examination of the role of the DMN in social and self relevant aspects of off-task thought

Author(s): Charlotte Murphy, Giulia Poerio, Mladen Sormaz, Hao-Ting Wang, Deniz Vatansever, Micah Allen, Daniel S. Margulies, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/11, 2019, Page(s) e0216182, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0216182

Emergence of neural dynamics within a co-ordinate space of large-scale neural hierarchies

Author(s): Theodoros Karapanagiotidis; Diego Vidaurre; Diego Vidaurre; Andrew J. Quinn; Deniz Vatansever; Giulia L. Poerio; Adam Turnbull; Nerissa S.P. Ho; Robert Leech; Boris C. Bernhardt; Elizabeth Jefferies; Daniel S. Margulies; Thomas E. Nichols; Mark W. Woolrich; Jonathan Smallwood
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1101/2019.12.21.885772

The neurocognitive basis of knowledge about object identity and events: dissociations reflect opposing effects of semantic coherence and control

Author(s): Elizabeth Jefferies, Hannah Thompson, Piers Cornelissen, Jonathan Smallwood
Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, Issue 375/1791, 2020, Page(s) 20190300, ISSN 0962-8436
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2019.0300

Meaningful inhibition: Exploring the role of meaning and modality in response inhibition

Author(s): Tirso Gonzalez Alam, Charlotte Murphy, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 181, 2018, Page(s) 108-119, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.06.074

The structural basis of semantic control: Evidence from individual differences in cortical thickness

Author(s): Xiuyi Wang, Boris C. Bernhardt, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Irene De Caso, Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam, Zacharria Cotter, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 181, 2018, Page(s) 480-489, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.07.044

Emotion and location cues bias conceptual retrieval in people with deficient semantic control

Author(s): Lucilla Lanzoni, Hannah Thompson, Danai Beintari, Katrina Berwick, Harriet Demnitz-King, Hannah Raspin, Maria Taha, Sara Stampacchia, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 131, 2019, Page(s) 294-305, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2019.05.030

Control the source: Source memory for semantic, spatial and self-related items in patients with LIFG lesions

Author(s): Sara Stampacchia, Suzanne Pegg, Glyn Hallam, Jonathan Smallwood, Matthew A. Lambon Ralph, Hannah Thompson, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cortex, Issue 119, 2019, Page(s) 165-183, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.04.014

Modes of operation: A topographic neural gradient supporting stimulus dependent and independent cognition

Author(s): Charlotte Murphy, Hao-Ting Wang, Delali Konu, Rebecca Lowndes, Daniel S. Margulies, Elizabeth Jefferies, Jonathan Smallwood
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 186, 2019, Page(s) 487-496, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2018.11.009

Dissociations in semantic cognition: Oscillatory evidence for opposing effects of semantic control and type of semantic relation in anterior and posterior temporal cortex

Author(s): Catarina Teige, Piers L. Cornelissen, Giovanna Mollo, Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam, Kristofor McCarty, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cortex, Issue 120, 2019, Page(s) 308-325, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.07.002

Distinct individual differences in default mode network connectivity relate to off-task thought and text memory during reading

Author(s): Meichao Zhang, Nicola Savill, Daniel S. Margulies, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 9/1, 2019, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-019-52674-9

Degrees of lateralisation in semantic cognition: Evidence from intrinsic connectivity

Author(s): Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 202, 2019, Page(s) 116089, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116089

Theta/delta coupling across cortical laminae contributes to semantic cognition

Author(s): Natalie E. Adams, Catarina Teige, Giovanna Mollo, Theodoros Karapanagiotidis, Piers L. Cornelissen, Jonathan Smallwood, Roger D. Traub, Elizabeth Jefferies, Miles A. Whittington
Published in: Journal of Neurophysiology, Issue 121/4, 2019, Page(s) 1150-1161, ISSN 0022-3077
Publisher: American Physiological Society
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00686.2018

The role of default mode network in semantic cue integration

Author(s): Lucilla Lanzoni, Daniela Ravasio, Hannah Thompson, Deniz Vatansever, Daniel Margulies, Jonathan Smallwood, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: NeuroImage, Issue 219, 2020, Page(s) 117019, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2020.117019

Deficits of semantic control disproportionately affect low-relevance conceptual features: evidence from semantic aphasia

Author(s): Maria Montefinese, Glyn Hallam, Sara Stampacchia, Hannah Elizabeth Thompson, Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Aphasiology, 2020, Page(s) 1-15, ISSN 0268-7038
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/02687038.2020.1814950

The influence of language dominance and domain-general executive control on semantic context effects

Author(s): Boned, Jaume; Cardona, Gemma; Jefferies, Beth; Hernandez, Mireia
Published in: Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 2327-3798
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2021.1892784

Context Free and Context-Dependent Conceptual Representation in the Temporal Lobes

Author(s): Zhiyao Gao; Li Zheng; André Gouws; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Xiuyi Wang; Dominika Varga; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, Issue 1, 2022, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2021.05.03.442424

Impaired emotion perception and categorization in semantic aphasia.

Author(s): Nicholas E. Souter; Kristen A. Lindquist; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 1, 2021, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/cy37z