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PSYCHONOMIC BULLETIN & REVIEW
Volume 23, Issue 4, Pages 979-990Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.3758/s13423-015-0842-3
Keywords
Concepts and categories; Cognitive neuroscience of memory; Embodied cognition; Neuroimaging and memory
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- National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health, Division of Intramural Research [1 ZIA MH 002588-25, NCT01031407]
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In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong support for viewing concepts as the products of highly interactive neural circuits grounded in the action, perception, and emotion systems. The nodes of these circuits are defined by regions representing specific object properties (e.g., form, color, and motion) and thus are property-specific, rather than strictly modality-specific. How these circuits are modified by external and internal environmental demands, the distinction between representational content and format, and the grounding of abstract social concepts are also discussed.
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