AFNI: software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages
Computers and Biomedical Research
An Event-Related fMRI Investigation of Implicit Semantic Priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
fMRI Responses to Video and Point-Light Displays of Moving Humans and Manipulable Objects
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Substrates of Action Event Knowledge
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Task-Dependent Modulation of Regions in the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex during Semantic Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Interactions Between Forms of Memory: When Priming Hinders New Episodic Learning
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Mental Imagery of Faces and Places Activates Corresponding Stiimulus-Specific Brain Regions
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Activation in Human MT/MST by Static Images with Implied Motion
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Cortical Regions Associated with Perceiving, Naming, and Knowing about Colors
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural correlates of morphological processes in hebrew
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Functional neuroanatomy of contextual acquisition of concrete and abstract words
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Dynamic cultural influences on neural representations of the self
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
How different types of conceptual relations modulate brain activation during semantic priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Brain activation during masked and unmasked semantic priming: Commonalities and differences
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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We used rapid, event-related fMRI to identify the neural systems underlying object semantics. During scanning, subjects silently read rapidly presented word pairs (150 msec, SOA = 250 msec) that were either unrelated in meaning (ankle–carrot), semantically related (fork–cup), or identical (crow–crow). Activity in the left posterior region of the fusiform gyrus and left inferior frontal cortex was modulated by word-pair relationship. Semantically related pairs yielded less activity than unrelated pairs, but greater activity than identical pairs, mirroring the pattern of behavioral facilitation as measured by word reading times. These findings provide strong support for the involvement of these areas in the automatic processing of object meaning. In addition, words referring to animate objects produced greater activity in the lateral region of the fusiform gyri, right superior temporal sulcus, and medial region of the occipital lobe relative to manmade, manipulable objects, whereas words referring to manmade, manipulable objects produced greater activity in the left ventral premotor, left anterior cingulate, and bilateral parietal cortices relative to animate objects. These findings are consistent with the dissociation between these areas based on sensory- and motor-related object properties, providing further evidence that conceptual object knowledge is housed, in part, in the same neural systems that subserve perception and action.