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14741110

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
2004-1-26
pubmed:abstractText
Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the left temporal lobe. Here we use event-related fMRI to show that action words referring to face, arm, or leg actions (e.g., to lick, pick, or kick), when presented in a passive reading task, differentially activated areas along the motor strip that either were directly adjacent to or overlapped with areas activated by actual movement of the tongue, fingers, or feet. These results demonstrate that the referential meaning of action words has a correlate in the somatotopic activation of motor and premotor cortex. This rules out a unified "meaning center" in the human brain and supports a dynamic view according to which words are processed by distributed neuronal assemblies with cortical topographies that reflect word semantics.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0896-6273
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
22
pubmed:volume
41
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
301-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Somatotopic representation of action words in human motor and premotor cortex.
pubmed:affiliation
Medical Research Council, Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Clinical Trial, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't