The human mind uses concepts to store and represent our knowledge of the world. Somehow, our brains represent concepts in a way that enables us to use them flexibly in dynamic environments and also update them across multiple timescales.
Our research uses cognitive neuroscience methods to study the flexibility of semantic knowledge. More specifically, we use behavior, fMRI, and computational methodsto explore how the structure embedded within newly learned categories and long-term conceptual knowledge supports this semantic plasticity.