The neural representation of concrete nouns: what's right and what's left?

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Apr 2004 English Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Trends in Cognitive Sciences, volume 8, pages 151-153 (issn: 1364-6613,

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Authors: Sophie K, Scott;

doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2004.02.003

pmid: 15551484

The neural representation of concrete nouns: what's right and what's left?

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Abstract

In a recent paper, Fiebach and Friederici review the literature in the functional imaging of abstract and concrete nouns, and present an fMRI study. They conclude that (a) there is no evidence for a right hemispheric imaginal system that is specifically associated with concrete nouns, and (b) there is evidence supporting aspects of both the context-availability and dual-coding accounts of noun processing. I relate this result to aspects of process and representation, and the anatomy of the ventral temporal lobe.

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Mental Processes, Reading, Decision Making, Humans, Functional Laterality, Temporal Lobe, Language, Semantics

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