AFNI: software for analysis and visualization of functional magnetic resonance neuroimages
Computers and Biomedical Research
Reading in a Regular Orthography: An fMRI Study Investigating the Role of Visual Familiarity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An Event-Related fMRI Investigation of Implicit Semantic Priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Correlates of Lexical Access during Visual Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Task-Dependent Modulation of Regions in the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex during Semantic Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Conceptual Processing during the Conscious Resting State: A Functional MRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Segregating semantic from phonological processes during reading
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Correlates of Concreteness in Semantic Categorization
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Functional neuroanatomy of contextual acquisition of concrete and abstract words
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Where the mass counts: Common cortical activation for different kinds of nonsingularity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Behavioral and neurophysiological effects of word imageability and concreteness remain a topic of central interest in cognitive neuroscience and could provide essential clues for understanding how the brain processes conceptual knowledge. We examined these effects using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging while participants identified concrete and abstract words. Relative to nonwords, concrete and abstract words both activated a left-lateralized network of multimodal association areas previously linked with verbal semantic processing. Areas in the left lateral temporal lobe were equally activated by both word types, whereas bilateral regions including the angular gyrus and the dorsal prefrontal cortex were more strongly engaged by concrete words. Relative to concrete words, abstract words activated left inferior frontal regions previously linked with phonological and verbal working memory processes. The results show overlapping but partly distinct neural systems for processing concrete and abstract concepts, with greater involvement of bilateral association areas during concrete word processing, and processing of abstract concepts almost exclusively by the left hemisphere.