期刊
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
卷 35, 期 46, 页码 15230-15239出版社
SOC NEUROSCIENCE
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4705-14.2015
关键词
angular gyrus; control; posterior middle temporal gyrus; semantic; transcranial magnetic stimulation
资金
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J006963/1]
- European Research Council [SEMBIND-283530]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J006963/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/J006963/1] Funding Source: UKRI
Semantic retrieval involves both (1) automatic spreading activation between highly related concepts and (2) executive control processes that tailor this activation to suit the current context or goals. Two structures in left temporoparietal cortex, angular gyrus (AG) and posterior middle temporal gyrus (pMTG), are thought to be crucial to semantic retrieval and are often recruited together during semantic tasks; however, they show strikingly different patterns of functional connectivity at rest (coupling with the default mode network and frontoparietal control system, respectively). Here, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was used to establish a causal yet dissociable role for these sites in semantic cognition in human volunteers. TMS to AG disrupted thematic judgments particularly when the link between probe and target was strong (e.g., a picture of an Alsatian with a bone), and impaired the identification of objects at a specific but not a superordinate level (for the verbal label Alsatian not animal). In contrast, TMS to pMTG disrupted thematic judgments for weak but not strong associations (e.g., a picture of an Alsatian with razor wire), and impaired identity matching for both superordinate and specific-level labels. Thus, stimulation to AG interfered with the automatic retrieval of specific concepts from the semantic store while stimulation of pMTG impaired semantic cognition when there was a requirement to flexibly shape conceptual activation in line with the task requirements. These results demonstrate that AG and pMTG make a dissociable contribution to automatic and controlled aspects of semantic retrieval.
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