Neural mechanisms of semantic memory

Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 461-465

  Kraut, Michael A ^b   Pitcock, Jeffery ^b   Hart Jr , John ^a  

^a CAVHS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; FACILITATION; HUMAN; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PULVINAR; REVIEW; SEMANTICS; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL ORIENTATION; TEMPORAL CORTEX; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VISUAL ORIENTATION;

EID: 9744228745     PISSN: 15284042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11910-004-0069-6     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Damasio H, Grabowski TJ, Tranel D, et al.: A neural basis for lexical retrieval. Nature 1996, 380:499-505.
2. Martin A, Wiggs CL, Ungerleider LG, Haxby JV. Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge. Nature 1996, 379: 49-652.
3. Hart J, Gordon B: Neural subsystems for object knowledge. Nature 1992, 359:60-64.
4. Kraut MA, Kremen S, Segal JB, et al.: Object activation from features in the semantic system. J Cogn Neurosci 2002, 14:24-36.
5. Kraut MA, Kremen S, Moo LR, et al.: Object activation in semantic memory from visual multimodal feature input. J Cogn Neurosci 2002, 14:37-47.
6. Underwood G, Whitfield A: Right hemisphere interactions in picture-word processing. Brain Cognition 1985, 4:273-286.
7. Singer W: Synchronization of cortical activity and its putative role in information processing and learning. Annu Rev Physiol 1993, 55:349-374.
8. Slotnick S, Moo L, Kraut M, et al.: Thalamic modulation of cortical rhythms during semantic memory recall in humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002, 99:6440-6443.
9. Singer W, Gray CM: Visual feature integration and the temporal correlation hypothesis. Annu Rev Neurosci 1995, 18: 55-586.
10. Klimesch W: Memory processes, brain oscillations and EEG synchronization. Int J Psychophysiol 1996, 24:61-100.
11. Steriade M: Corticothalamic resonance, states of vigilance and mentation. Neuroscience 2000, 101:243-276.
12. Gutierrez C, Cola MG, Seltzer B, Cusick C: Neurochemical and connectional organization of the dorsal pulvinar complex in monkeys. J Comp Neurol 2000, 419:61-86.
13. Ilinsky IA, Jouandet ML, Goldman-Rakic PS: Organization of the nigrothalamocortical system in the rhesus monkey. J Comp Neurol 1985, 236:315-330.
14. Inase M, Tokuno H, Nambu A, et al.: Origin of thalamocortical projections to the presupplementary motor area (pre-SMA) in the macaque. Neurosci Res 1996, 25:217-227.
15. Preuss TM, Goldman-Rakic PS: Crossed corticothalamic and thalamocortical connections of macaque prefrontal cortex. J Comp Neurol 1987, 257:269-281.
16. Yeterian EH, Pandya DN: Corticothalamic connections of paralimbic regions in the rhesus monkey. J Comp Neurol 1988, 269:130-146.
17. Wilson FA, Scalaidhe SP, Goldman-Rakic PS: Dissociation of object and spatial processing domains in primate prefrontal cortex. Science 1993, 260:1955-1958.
18. Crosson B, Sadek JR, Bobholz JA, et al.: Activity in the paracingulate and cingulate sulci during word generation: an fMRI study of functional anatomy. Cerebral Cortex 1999, 9: 07-316.
19. Thompson-Schill S, D'Esposito M, Aguirre G, Farah M: Role of left inferior prefrontal cortex in retrieval of semantic knowledge: a reevaluation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997, 94: 4792-14797.
20. Nadeau SE, Crosson B: Subcortical aphasia. Brain Lang 1997, 58:355-402.
21. Hart J, Moo L, Segal JB, et al.: Neural substrates of semantics. In Handbook of Language Disorders. Edited by Hillis A. Philadelphia: Psychology Press; 2002.
22. Kraut M, Calhoun V, Pitcock JA, et al.: Neural hybrid model of semantic object memory: implications from event-related timing using fMRI. J Int Neuropsychol Soc 2003, 9: 031-1040.
23. Devlin JT, Russell RP, Davis MH, et al.: Is there an anatomical basis for category-specificity? Semantic memory studies in PET and fMRI. Neuropsychologia 2002, 40:54-75.
24. Moore CJ, Price CJ: A functional neuroimaging study of the variables that generate category-specific object processing differences. Brain 1999, 122:943-962.
25. Kraut M, Moo L, Segal J, Hart J: Neural activation during an explicit categorization task: category- or feature-specific effects? Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 2002, 13:213-220.
26. Caramazza A, Shelton JR: Domain-specific knowledge systems in the brain the animate-inanimate distinction. J Cogn Neurosci 1998, 10:1-34.
27. Haxby J, Gobbini MI, Furey ML, et al.: Distributed and overlapping representations of faces and objects in ventral temporal cortex. Science 2001, 293:2405-2407.
28. Miceli G, Fouch E, Capasso R, et al.: The dissociation of color from form and function knowledge. Nature Neurosci 2001, 4:662-667.
29. Binder JR, Swanson SJ, Hammeke T, et al.: Determination of language dominance using functional MRI: a comparison with the Wada test. Neurology 1996, 46:978-984.
30. Fiez JA: Phonology, semantics, and the role of the left inferior prefrontal cortex. Hum Brain Mapp 1997, 5:79-83.
31. Kemmerer D, Tranel D: Verb retrieval in brain-damaged subjects: 1. Analysis of stimulus, lexical, and conceptual factors. Brain Lang 2000, 73:347-392.
32. Thompson-Schill S, Swick D, Farah M, et al.: Verb generation in patients with focal frontal lesions: a neuropsychological test of neuroimaging findings. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1998, 95:15855-15860.
33. Ojemann J, Ojemann G, Lettich E: Cortical stimulation mapping of language cortex by using a verb generation task: effects of learning and comparison to mapping based on object naming. J Neurosurg 2002, 97:33-38.
34. Hart J, Gordon B: Delineation of single-word semantic comprehension deficits in aphasia, with anatomical correlation. Ann Neurol 1990, 27:226-231.
35. Beauchamp MS, Lee KE, Argall BD, Martin A: Integration of auditory and visual information about objects in superior temporal sulcus. Neuron 2004, 41:809-823.
36. Vandenberghe R, Price C, Wise R, et al.: Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures. Nature 1996, 383:254-256.
37. Gainotti G: What the locus of brain lesion tells us about the nature of the cognitive defect underlying category-specific disorders: a review. Cortex 2000, 36:539-559.
38. Tyler L, Moss H: Towards a distributed account of conceptual knowledge. Trends Cogn Sci 2001, 5:244-252.
39. Warrington E, McCarthy RA: Multiple meaning systems in the brain: a case for visual semantics. Neuropsychologia 1994, 32:1465-1473.