Puddles, Parties, and Professors: Linking word categorization to neural patterns of visuospatial coding

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2636-2649

  Quadflieg, Susanne ^a,b,c   Etzel, Joset A ^b   Gazzola, Valeria ^b,d   Keysers, Christian ^b,d   Schubert, Thomas W ^e   Waiter, Gordon D ^a   Neil Macrae, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c CatholicUniversity of Louvain ^*  (Belgium)

^d NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTO UNIVERSITÁRIO DE LISBOA ISCTE IUL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; DEPTH PERCEPTION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEMANTICS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860390183     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2011.21628     Document Type: Article

References (75)

1. Amorapanth, P. X., Widick, P., & Chatterjee, A. (2010). The neural basis for spatial relations. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 22, 1739-1753.
2. Baciu, M., Koenig, O., Vernier, M.-P., Bedoin, N., Rubin, C., & Segebarth, C. (1999). Categorical and coordinate spatial relations: fMRI evidence for hemispheric specialization. NeuroReport, 10, 1373-1378.
3. Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Grounded cognition. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 617-645.
4. Boroditsky, L., & Prinz, J. J. (2008). What thoughts are made of. In G. R. Semin & E. R. Smith (Eds.), Embodied grounding: Social, cognitive, affective, and neuroscientific approaches (pp. 98-115). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
5. Bradley, M. M., & Lang, P. J. (1999). Affective norms for English words (ANEW): Instruction manual and affective ratings. Technical Report C-1, The Center for Research in Psychophysiology, University of Florida.
6. Brandt, T., & Dietrich, M. (1999). The vestibular cortex. Its locations, functions, and disorders. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 871, 293-312.
7. Calvert, G. A., Spence, C., & Stein, B. E. (2004). The handbook of multisensory processes. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press.
8. Carlson, L. A. (1999). Selecting a reference frame. Spatial Cognition and Computation, 1, 365-379.
9. Casasanto, D. (2009). Embodiment of abstract concepts: Good and bad in right- and left-handers. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 138, 351-367.
10. Casasanto, D. (2010). Space for thinking. In V. Evans & P. Chilton (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space (pp. 453-478). London: Equinox Publishing.
11. Casasanto, D., & Dijkstra, K. (2010). Motor action and emotional memory. Cognition, 115, 179-185.
12. Chao, L. L., Haxby, J. V., & Martin, A. (1999). Attribute-based neural substrates in temporal cortex for perceiving and knowing about objects. Nature Neuroscience, 2, 913-919.
13. Chao, L. L., Weisberg, J., & Martin, A. (2002). Experience dependent modulation of category-related cortical activity. Cerebral Cortex, 12, 545-551.
14. Chatterjee, A. (2010). Disembodying cognition. Language and Cognition, 2, 79-116.
15. Childers, T. L., Houston, M. J., & Heckler, S. E. (1985). Measurement of individual differences in visual versus verbal information processing. Journal of Consumer Research, 12, 125-134.
16. Cohen, J. D., MacWhinney, B., Flatt, M., & Provost, J. (1993). PsyScope: A new graphic interactive environment for designing psychology experiments. Behavioral Research Methods, Instruments, and Computers, 25, 257-271.
17. Corradi-Dell'Aqua, C., Hesse, M. D., Rumiati, R. I., & Fink, G. R. (2008). Where is a nose with respect to a foot? The left posterior parietal cortex processes spatial relationships among body parts. Cerebral Cortex, 18, 2879-2890.
18. Crawford, L. E., Margolies, S. M., Drake, J. T., & Murphy, M. E. (2006). Affect biases memory of location: Evidence for the spatial representation of affect. Cognition and Emotion, 20, 1153-1169.
19. Damasio, H., Grabowski, T. J., Tranel, D., Ponto, L. L., Hichwa, R. D., & Damasio, A. R. (2001). Neural correlates of naming actions and of naming spatial relations. Neuroimage, 13, 1053-1064.
20. Dennett, D. C. (1969). Content and consciousness. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
21. Eickhoff, S. B., Weiss, P. H., Amunts, K., Fink, G. R., & Zilles, K. (2006). Identifying human parieto-insular vestibular cortex using fMRI and cytoarchitectonic mapping. Human Brain Mapping, 27, 611-621.
22. Estes, Z., Verges, M., & Barsalou, L. W. (2008). Head up, foot down: Object words orient attention to the objects' typical location. Psychological Science, 19, 93-97.
23. Etzel, J. A., Gazzola, V., & Keysers, C. (2009). An introduction to anatomical ROI-based fMRI classification analysis. Brain Research, 1282, 114-125.
24. Fan, Y., Shen, D., & Davatzikos, C. (2006). Detecting cognitive states from fMRI images by machine learning and multivariate classification. Proceedings of the 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop ISBN: 0-7695-2646-2.
25. Fodor, J. A. (1975). The language of thought. New York: Crowell.
26. Formisano, E., De Martino, F., & Valente, G. (2008). Multivariate analysis of fMRI time series: Classification and regression of brain responses using machine learning. Magnetic Resonance Imaging, 26, 921-934.
27. Gallese, V., & Lakoff, G. (2005). The brain's concepts: The role of the sensorymotor system in reason and language. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 22, 455-479.
28. Glenberg, A. M., & Kaschak, M. P. (2002). Grounding language in action. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 9, 558-565.
29. Glenberg, A. M., & Robertson, D. A. (2000). Symbol grounding and meaning: A comparison of high-dimensional and embodied theories of meaning. Journal of Memory and Language, 43, 379-401.
30. Golland, P., & Fischl, B. (2003). Permutation tests for classification: Towards statistical significance in image-based studies. In C. J. Taylor & J. A. Noble (Eds.), Information processing in medical imaging (pp. 330-341). Berlin/ Heidelberg: Springer.
31. Hauk, O., Davis, M. H., Kherif, F., & Pulvermüller, F. (2008). Imagery or meaning? Evidence for a semantic origin of category-specific brain activity in metabolic imaging. European Journal of Neuroscience, 27, 1856-1866.
32. Indovina, I., Maffei, V., Bosco, G., Zago, M., Macaluso, E., & Lacquaniti, F. (2005). Representation of visual gravitational motion in the human vestibular cortex. Science, 308, 416-419.
33. Jackendoff, R. (2002). Foundations of language: Brain, meaning, grammar, evolution. Oxford University Press.
34. Jeannerod, M. (2001). Neural simulation of action: A unifying mechanism for motor cognition. Neuroimage, 14, 103-109
35. Kemmerer, D. (2006). The semantics of space: Integrating linguistic typology and cognitive neuroscience. Neuropsychologia, 44, 1607-1621.
36. Kemmerer, D., & Tranel, D. (2000). A double dissociation between linguistic and perceptual representations of spatial relationships. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 17, 393-414.
37. Knops, A., Thirion, B., Hubbard, E. M., Michel, V., & Dehaene, S. (2009). Recruitment of an area involved in eye movements during mental arithmetic. Science, 324, 1583-1585.
38. Kriegeskorte, N., Cusack, R., & Bandettini, P. (2010). How does an fMRI voxel sample the neuronal activity pattern: Compact-kernel or complex spatiotemporal filter? Neuroimage, 49, 1965-1976.
39. Lakoff, G. (2008). The neural theory of metaphor. In R. W. Gibbs (Ed.), Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought (pp. 17-38). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
40. Lakoff, G., & Johnson, M. (1999). Philosophy in the flesh: The embodied mind and its challenge to Western thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
41. Macaluso, E., & Driver, J. (2005). Multisensory spatial interactions: A window onto functional integration in the human brain. Trends in Neurosciences, 28, 264-271.
42. Mahon, B. Z., & Caramazza, A. (2009). Concepts and categories: A cognitive neuropsychological perspective. Annual Review of Psychology, 60, 27-51.
43. Marques, J. F., Canessa, N., Siri, S., Catricalà, E., & Cappa, S. (2008). Conceptual knowledge in the brain: fMRI evidence for featural organization. Brain Research, 1194, 90-99.
44. Martin, A. (2007). The representation of object concepts in the brain. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 25-45.
45. Mechelli, A., Price, C. J., Friston, K. J., & Ishai, A. (2004). Where bottom-up meets top-down: Neuronal interactions during perception and imagery. Cerebral Cortex, 14, 1256-1265.
46. Meier, B. P., Hauser, D. J., Robinson, M. D., Kelland Friesen, C., & Schjeldahl, K. (2007). What's "up" with god? Vertical space as a representation of the divine. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 93, 699-710.
47. Meier, B. P., & Robinson, M. D. (2004). Why the sunny side is up. Associations between affect and vertical position. Psychological Science, 15, 243-247.
48. Meier, B. P., Sellbom, M., & Wygant, D. B. (2007). Failing to take the moral high ground: Psychopathy and the vertical representation of morality. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 757-767.
49. Meteyard, L., & Vigliocco, G. (2008). The role of sensory and motor information in semantic representation: A review. In P. Calvo & A. Gomila (Eds.), Handbook of cognitive science: An embodied approach (pp. 293-312). London: Academic Press.
50. Naganuma, M., Inatomi, Y., Yonehara, T., Fujioka, S., Hashimoto, Y., Hirano, T., et al. (2006). Rotational vertigo associated with parietal cortical infarction. Journal of the Neurological Sciences, 246, 159-161.
51. Noordzij, M. L., Neggers, S. F. W., Ramsey, N. F., & Postma, A. (2008). Neural correlates of locative prepositions. Neuropsychologia, 46, 1576-1580.
52. O'Craven, K. M., & Kanwisher, N. (2000). Mental imagery of faces and places activates corresponding stimulus-specific brain regions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 12, 1013-1023.
53. Oldfield, R. C. (1971). The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia, 9, 97-113.
54. Op de Beeck, H. P. (2010). Against hyperacuity in brain reading: Spatial smoothing does not hurt multivariate analyses? Neuroimage, 49, 1943-1948.
55. O'Toole, A. J., Abdi, F. J. H., Pénard, H., Dunlop, J. P., & Parent, M. A. (2007). Theoretical, statistical, and practical perspectives on pattern-based classification approaches to the analysis of functional neuroimaging data. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1735-1752.
56. Pecher, D., van Dantzig, S., Boot, I., Zanolie, K., & Huber, D. E. (2010). Congruency between word position and meaning is caused by task-induced spatial attention. Frontiers in Psychology, 1, 1-8.
57. Pereira, F., Mitchell, T., & Botvinick, M. (2009). Machine learning classifiers and fMRI: A tutorial overview. Neuroimage, 45, S199-S209.
58. Poldrack, R. A. (2006). Can cognitive processes be inferred from neuroimaging data? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10, 59-63.
59. Poldrack, R. A., Halchenko, Y. O., & Hanson, S. J. (2009). Decoding the large-scale structure of brain function by classifying mental states across individuals. Psychological Science, 20, 1364-1372.
60. Renier, L. A., Anurova, I., De Volder, A. G., Carlson, S., Van Meter, J., & Rauschecker, J. P. (2009). Multisensory integration of sounds and irotactile stimuli in processing streams for "what" and "where." Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 10950-10960.
61. Schlindwein, P., Mueller, M., Bauermann, T., Brandt, T., Stoeter, P., & Dieterich, M. (2008). Cortical representation of saccular vestibular stimulation: VEMPs in fMRI. Neuroimage, 39, 19-31.
62. Schubert, T. (2005). Your highness: Vertical positions as perceptual symbols of power. Journal of Personality & Social Psychology, 89, 1-21.
63. Schubert, T. W., Waldzus, S., & Seibt, B. (in press). More than a metaphor: How the understanding of power is grounded in experience. In T. W. Schubert & A. Maass (Eds.), Spatial dimensions of social thought. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
64. Šetić, M., & Domijan, D. (2007). The influence of vertical spatial orientation on property verification. Language & Cognitive Processes, 22, 297-312.
65. Steiger, J. H. (1980). Tests for comparing elements of a correlation matrix. Psychological Bulletin, 87, 245-251.
66. Stephan, T., Deutschländer, A., Nolte, A., Schneider, E. Wiesmann, M., Brandt, T., et al. (2005). Functional MRI of galvanic vestibular stimulation with alternating currents at different frequencies. Neuroimage, 26, 721-732.
67. Stokes, M., Thompson, R., Cusack, R., & Duncan, J. (2009). Top-down activation of shape-specific population codes in visual cortex during mental imagery. Journal of Neuroscience, 29, 1565-1572.
68. Tranel, E., & Kemmerer, D. (2004). Neuroanatomical correlates of locative prepositions. Cognitive Neuropsychology, 21, 719-749.
69. Trojano, L., Grossi, D., Linden, D. E., Formisano, E., Goebel, R., Cirillo, S., et al. (2002). Coordinate and categorical judgments in spatial imagery. Neuropsychologia, 40, 1666-1674.
70. Urasaki, E., & Yokota, A. (2004). Rotational vertigo caused by cerebral lesions: Vertigo and areas 3av, 2v and 7. Journal of Clinical Neuroscience, 13, 114-116.
71. Wu, D. H., Waller, S., & Chatterjee, A. (2007). The functional neuroanatomy of thematic role and locative relational knowledge. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 19, 1542-1555.
72. Yamakawa, Y., Kanai, R., Matsumura, M., & Naito, E. (2009). Social distance evaluation in human parietal cortex. PLoS ONE, 4, e4360. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0004360
73. Zwaan, R. A. (2009). Mental simulation in language comprehension and social cognition. European Journal of Social Psychology, 39, 1142-1150.
74. Zwaan, R. A., & Taylor, L. J. (2006). Seeing, acting, understanding: Motor resonance in language comprehension. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 135, 1-11.
75. Zwaan, R. A., & Yaxley, R. H. (2003). Spatial iconicity affects semantic relatedness judgments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 10, 954-958.