Heteromodal cortical areas encode sensory-motor features of word meaning

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 38, 2016, Pages 9763-9769

  Fernandino, Leonardo ^a   Humphries, Colin J ^a   Conant, Lisa L ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b   Binder, Jeffrey R ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Concepts; Embodiment; Lexical semantics; Multimodal processing; Predictive machine learning; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; CONNECTOME; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; ALGORITHM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BLOOD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; IMAGE PROCESSING; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

OXYGEN;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; OXYGEN; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84988473737     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4095-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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