ERC Starting Grant · 2024
Cognitive and Neural Computations of Semantics
In our everyday lives, we rely on existing relations among elements in our environment (i.e., semantic information) to interact efficiently with the world. This information can either be used to facilitate understanding by exploiting redundant (congruent) evidence or to signal out salient stimuli by highlighting unexpected (incongruent) elements. This duality raises fundamental questions about how and when our brains utilize stored semantic knowledge as its influence seems to vary depending on the specific cognitive domain. This seemingly paradoxical state represents a cognitive puzzle that questions whether the presence of (in)congruent contextual information in a given situation has a…
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