期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 32, 期 15, 页码 3302-3317出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhab416
关键词
concreteness; fMRI; representational similarity analysis; semantics; valence
资金
- KU Leuven [C14/17/108]
- Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) [G094418N]
This study used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the effects of attention on the semantic representations of word meaning. The results showed that orienting attention to different dimensions of word meaning influences the neural activity patterns, particularly in peripheral brain regions.
Conscious processing of word meaning can be guided by attention. In this event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging study in 22 healthy young volunteers, we examined in which regions orienting attention to two fundamental and generic dimensions of word meaning, concreteness versus valence, alters the semantic representations coded in activity patterns. The stimuli consisted of 120 nouns in written or spoken modality which varied factorially along the concreteness and valence axis. Participants performed a forced-choice judgement of either concreteness or valence. Rostral and subgenual anterior cingulate were strongly activated during valence judgement, and precuneus and the dorsal attention network during concreteness judgement. Task and stimulus type interacted in right posterior fusiform gyrus, left lingual gyrus, precuneus, and insula. In the right posterior fusiform gyrus and the left lingual gyrus, the correlation between the pairwise similarity in activity patterns evoked by words and the pairwise distance in valence and concreteness was modulated by the direction of attention, word valence or concreteness. The data indicate that orienting attention to basic dimensions of word meaning exerts effects on the representation of word meaning in more peripheral nodes, such as the ventral occipital cortex, rather than the core perisylvian language regions.
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