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CEREBRAL CORTEX
Volume 33, Issue 8, Pages 4990-5006Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhac394
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language; meta-analysis; semantic cognition; social cognition; temporal lobe
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The posterior lateral temporal cortex is involved in various verbal, nonverbal, and social cognitive domains. Through comparing different domains, it is found that some processes engage distinct subregions while others may engage shared neural correlates and processes.
The posterior lateral temporal cortex is implicated in many verbal, nonverbal, and social cognitive domains and processes. Yet without directly comparing these disparate domains, the region's organization remains unclear; do distinct processes engage discrete subregions, or could different domains engage shared neural correlates and processes? Here, using activation likelihood estimation meta-analyses, the bilateral posterior lateral temporal cortex subregions engaged in 7 domains were directly compared. These domains comprised semantics, semantic control, phonology, biological motion, face processing, theory of mind, and representation of tools. Although phonology and biological motion were predominantly associated with distinct regions, other domains implicated overlapping areas, perhaps due to shared underlying processes. Theory of mind recruited regions implicated in semantic representation, tools engaged semantic control areas, and faces engaged subregions for biological motion and theory of mind. This cross-domain approach provides insight into how posterior lateral temporal cortex is organized and why.
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