TY - JOUR
T1 - An early stage of conceptual combination
T2 - Superimposition of constituent concepts in left anterolateral temporal lobe
AU - Baron, Sean G.
AU - Thompson-Schill, Sharon L.
AU - Weber, Matthew
AU - Osherson, Daniel
N1 - Funding Information:
E-mail: [email protected] Financial support for this study was provided by The Henry Luce Foundation.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Conceptual combination is an essential cognitive process, yet little is known about its neural correlates. In the present study, a categorization task was used to evoke patterns of neural activation for complex concepts (e.g., young man) as well as their constituents (e.g., young, man). A functional region of interest (fROI) within left anterolateral temporal lobe was identified as a possible site of conceptual combination. In this region, the superimposition of activity for constituent concepts reliably predicted the activation pattern for the complex concept built from those constituents.
AB - Conceptual combination is an essential cognitive process, yet little is known about its neural correlates. In the present study, a categorization task was used to evoke patterns of neural activation for complex concepts (e.g., young man) as well as their constituents (e.g., young, man). A functional region of interest (fROI) within left anterolateral temporal lobe was identified as a possible site of conceptual combination. In this region, the superimposition of activity for constituent concepts reliably predicted the activation pattern for the complex concept built from those constituents.
KW - Conceptual combination
KW - FMRI
KW - Face
KW - Pattern analysis
KW - Semantic
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U2 - 10.1080/17588920903548751
DO - 10.1080/17588920903548751
M3 - Article
C2 - 24168244
AN - SCOPUS:79952699865
SN - 1758-8928
VL - 1
SP - 44
EP - 51
JO - Cognitive Neuroscience
JF - Cognitive Neuroscience
IS - 1
ER -