Journal
COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages 44-51Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/17588920903548751
Keywords
Face; Semantic; Pattern analysis; Conceptual combination; fMRI
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- Henry Luce Foundation
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Conceptual combination is an essential cognitive process, yet little is known about its neural correlates. In the present study, a categorization task was used to evoke patterns of neural activation for complex concepts (e.g., young man) as well as their constituents (e.g., young, man). A functional region of interest (fROI) within left anterolateral temporal lobe was identified as a possible site of conceptual combination. In this region, the superimposition of activity for constituent concepts reliably predicted the activation pattern for the complex concept built from those constituents.
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