Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories

Highlights • Concrete nouns and verbs elicit different brain signatures in frontocentral cortex.• Abstract nouns and verbs fail to elicit different brain activation patterns.• Concrete verbs activate motor and premotor cortex more strongly than concrete nouns.• Concrete nouns activate inferior frontal areas more strongly than concrete verbs.• Lexical category distinctions in middle temporal cortex cannot be confirmed.

• Publication year

  2014

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  Brain and Language

• Publication date

  2014-05-01

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  Medicine, Linguistics, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.001PMID 24727103PMCID 4029073
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