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

Project closed

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

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (44)

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

Physical distance to sensory-motor landmarks predicts language function

Author(s): Wang, Xiuyi; Krieger-Redwood, Katya Melanie; Zhang, Meichao; Cui, Zaixu; Wang, Xiaokang; Karapanagiotidis, Theodoros; Du, Yi; Leech, Robert; Bernhardt, Boris C; Margulies, Daniel S.; Smallwood, Jonathan; Jefferies, Beth
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2023, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac344

Individual Differences in the Connectivity of Left and Right Anterior Temporal Lobes Relate to Modality and Category Effects in Semantic Categorisation

Author(s): Tirso Rj. Gonzalez Alam; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Megan Evans; Grace E. Rice; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cortex, 2021, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1101/2020.06.22.140509

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

Training flexible conceptual retrieval in post-stroke aphasia.

Author(s): Sara Stampacchia; Sara Stampacchia; Glyn Hallam; Glyn Hallam; Hannah E. Thompson; Upasana Nathaniel; Upasana Nathaniel; Lucilla Lanzoni; Jonathan Smallwood; Jonathan Smallwood; Matthew A. Lambon Ralph; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 2021, ISSN 0960-2011
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2021.1895847

A tale of two gradients: differences between the left and right hemispheres predict semantic cognition.

Author(s): Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam; Brontë Mckeown; Zhiyao Gao; Boris C. Bernhardt; Reinder Vos de Wael; Daniel S. Margulies; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, 2022, ISSN 1863-2653
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-021-02374-w

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

Creativity in Verbal Associations is Linked to Semantic Control

Author(s): Katya Krieger-Redwood; Anna Steward; Zhiyao Gao; Xiuyi Wang; Ajay Halai; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2023, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2022.02.08.479385

Perceptual coupling and decoupling of the default mode network during mind-wandering and reading

Author(s): Meichao Zhang; Boris C Bernhardt; Xiuyi Wang; Dominika Varga; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Jessica Royer; Raúl Rodríguez-Cruces; Reinder Vos de Wael; Daniel S Margulies; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: eLife, 2022, ISSN 2050-084X
Publisher: eLife Sciences Publications
DOI: 10.1101/2020.10.03.324947

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

Default mode network can support the level of detail in experience during active task states

Author(s): Sormaz, Mladen; Murphy, Charlotte; Wang, Hao Ting; Hymers, Mark; Karapanagiotidis, Theodoros; Poerio, Giulia; Margulies, Daniel S.; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Smallwood, Jonathan
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2018, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1721259115

Perceptual coupling and decoupling are associated with individual differences in working memory encoding and maintenance

Author(s): Zhang, Meichao; McNab, Fiona; Smallwood, Jonathan; Jefferies, Beth
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2022, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab459

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

Distinct and Common Neural Coding of Semantic and Non-semantic Control Demands

Author(s): Zhiyao Gao; Li Zheng; Rocco Chiou; Andre Gouws; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Xiuyi Wang; Dominika Varga; Matthew A. Lambon Ralph; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Neuroimage, 2021, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1101/2020.11.16.384883

Individual word representations dissociate from linguistic context along a cortical unimodal to heteromodal gradient

Author(s): Susanne Eisenhauer; Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam; Piers L. Cornelissen; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Human Brain Mapping, 2024, ISSN 1065-9471
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1101/2023.04.25.538257

The neural correlates of ongoing conscious thought.

Author(s): Jonathan Smallwood; Jonathan Smallwood; Adam Turnbull; Adam Turnbull; Hao-Ting Wang; Nerissa S.P. Ho; Giulia L. Poerio; Theodoros Karapanagiotidis; Delali Konu; Brontë Mckeown; Meichao Zhang; Charlotte Murphy; Deniz Vatansever; Danilo Bzdok; Mahiko Konishi; Robert Leech; Paul Seli; Jonathan W. Schooler; Jonathan W. Schooler; Boris C. Bernhardt; Daniel S. Margulies; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: iScience, 2021, ISSN 2589-0042
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2021.102132

Mapping lesion, structural disconnection, and functional disconnection to symptoms in semantic aphasia

Author(s): Nicholas E. Souter; Xiuyi Wang; Hannah Thompson; Katya Krieger-Redwood; Ajay D. Halai; Matthew A. Lambon Ralph; Michel Thiebaut de Schotten; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, 2022, ISSN 1863-2653
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1101/2021.12.01.470605

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

Graded and sharp transitions in semantic function in left temporal lobe

Author(s): Katya Krieger-Redwood; Xiuyi Wang; Nicholas Souter; Tirso Rene del Jesus Gonzalez Alam; Jonathan Smallwood; Rebecca L. Jackson; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Brain and Language, 2024, ISSN 0093-934X
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.04.539459

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

The default mode network in cognition: a topographical perspective.

Author(s): Jonathan Smallwood; Boris C. Bernhardt; Robert Leech; Danilo Bzdok; Elizabeth Jefferies; Daniel S. Margulies; Daniel S. Margulies
Published in: Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2021, ISSN 1471-003X
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41583-021-00474-4

Couching the brain's multiple-demand and language-specific systems within a macroscale gradient of cortical connectivity

Author(s): Chiou, Rocco; Jefferies, Elizabeth; Duncan, John; Humphreys, Gina F; Lambon Ralph, Matthew A
Published in: Cerebral Cortex, 2023, ISSN 1460-2199
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1101/2021.11.26.470178

Motivated semantic control: Exploring the effects of extrinsic reward and self‐reference on semantic retrieval in semantic aphasia

Author(s): Nicholas E. Souter; Sara Stampacchia; Glyn Hallam; Hannah Thompson; Jonathan Smallwood; Elizabeth Jefferies
Published in: Journal of Neuropsychology, 2022, ISSN 1748-6645
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
DOI: 10.1111/jnp.12272

Both default and multiple-demand regions represent semantic goal information

Author(s): Wang, Xiuyi; Gao, Zhiyao; Smallwood, Jonathan; Jefferies, Beth
Published in: Journal of Neuroscience, 2021, ISSN 1529-2401
Publisher: Society for Neuroscience
DOI: 10.1101/2020.07.09.196048

Damage to temporoparietal cortex is sufficient for impaired semantic control

Author(s): Thompson, Hannah E; Noonan, Krist A; Halai, Ajay D; Hoffman, Paul; Stampacchia, Sara; Hallam, Glyn; Rice, Grace E; De Dios Perez, Blanca; Lambon Ralph, Matthew A; Jefferies, Elizabeth
Published in: Cortex, 2022, ISSN 0010-9452
Publisher: Masson Publishing
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2022.05.022

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

Ventral and dorsal aspects of the inferior frontal-occipital fasciculus support verbal semantic access and visually-guided behavioural control

Author(s): Tirso RJ Gonzalez Alam; Juan Cruz Arias; Elizabeth Jefferies; Jonathan Smallwood; Julian Marino Davolos
Published in: Brain Structure and Function, 2024, ISSN 1863-2653
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1971685/v1

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

Missing the forest because of the trees: Slower alternations during binocular rivalry are associated with lower levels of visual detail during ongoing thought

Author(s): Nerissa S.P. Ho; Nerissa S.P. Ho; Daniel H. Baker; Theodoros Karapanagiotidis; Paul Seli; Hao-Ting Wang; Robert Leech; Boris C. Bernhardt; Daniel S. Margulies; Elizabeth Jefferies; Jonathan Smallwood; Jonathan Smallwood
Published in: Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2020, ISSN 2057-2107
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/nc/niaa020

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

Intrinsic connectivity of left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex predicts individual differences in controlled semantic retrieval

Author(s): Zhang, Meichao; Nathaniel, Upasana; Savill, Nicola; Smallwood, Jonathan; Jefferies, Beth
Published in: Neuroimage, 2022, ISSN 1053-8119
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2021.118760