Activation in Human MT/MST by Static Images with Implied Motion
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Conceptual Processing during the Conscious Resting State: A Functional MRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Domain-Specific Knowledge Systems in the Brain: The Animate-Inanimate Distinction
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Face-specific processing in the human fusiform gyrus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Conceptual Representations of Action in the Lateral Temporal Cortex
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Automatic Priming of Semantically Related Words Reduces Activity in the Fusiform Gyrus
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Listening to Action-related Sentences Activates Fronto-parietal Motor Circuits
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Specificity of Action Representations in the Lateral Occipitotemporal Cortex
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Functional Interactions during the Retrieval of Conceptual Action Knowledge: An fMRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Functional Neuroanatomy of Thematic Role and Locative Relational Knowledge
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Deconstructing events: The neural bases for space, time, and causality
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Action concepts in the brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Human concepts can be roughly divided into entities (prototypically referred to in language by nouns) and events (prototypically referred to in language by verbs). While much work in cognitive neuroscience has investigated how the brain represents different categories of entities, less attention has been given to the more basic distinction between entities and events. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to examine brain activity while subjects performed a conceptual matching task that required them to access knowledge of objects and actions, using either pictures or words. Since action events involve movement through space, we hypothesized that accessing knowledge of actions would cause greater activation in brain regions involved in motion or spatial processing. In comparison to objects, accessing knowledge of actions through pictures was accompanied by increased activity bilaterally in the human MT/MST and nearby regions of the lateral temporal cortex. Accessing knowledge of actions through words activated areas just anterior and dorsal to area MT/MST on the left, within the posterior aspect of the middle and superior temporal gyri. We propose that the lateral occipital-temporal cortex contains a mosaic of neural regions that processes different kinds of motion, ranging from the perception of objects moving in the world to the conception of movement implied in action verbs. The lateral occipital-temporal cortex mediates the perceptual and conceptual features of action events, similar to the way that the ventral occipital-temporal cortex processes the perceptual and conceptual features of entities.