How the Brain Dynamically Constructs Sentence-Level Meanings From Word-Level Features.

How are words connected to the thoughts they help to express? Recent brain imaging studies suggest that word representations are embodied in different neural systems through which the words are experienced. Building on this idea, embodied approaches such as the Concept Attribute Representations (CAR) theory represents concepts as a set of semantic features (attributes) mapped to different brain systems. An intriguing challenge to this theory is that people weigh concept attributes differently based on context, i.