期刊
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
卷 141, 期 -, 页码 1-10出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.11.004
关键词
Semantic; Theory of mind; Verb; Action; Biological motion; fMRI
资金
- 973 Program [2013CB837300]
- Natural Science Foundation of China [31300842, 31070904, 31222024, 31171073]
- Scientific Foundation of the Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences [Y2CQ032005]
- Open Research Fund of the State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning [CNLYB1209]
- Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academic Sciences [KSCX2-YW-BR-6]
The theory-of-mind (TOM) network refers to a specific group of brain regions implicated in the thinking of people's mental states. It remains unclear how this network contributes to verb comprehension. In the present study, we compared brain activations evoked by verbs that refer to social actions, private actions, and nonhuman events. All classic regions of the ToM network, including the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) whose activation during word comprehension is typically interpreted as the processing of motion properties, showed stronger activations to social action verbs than the others. These findings indicate that the ToM network is involved in the processing of social/mental knowledge of verb meanings. Furthermore, the activation of the pSTS during word comprehension mainly reflects the processing of social/mental properties but not that of biological-motion properties. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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