Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories
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Nouns, verbs, objects, actions, and abstractions: Local fMRI activity indexes semantics, not lexical categories
Noun/verb dissociations in the literature defy interpretation due to the confound between lexical category and semantic meaning; nouns and verbs typically describe concrete objects and actions. Abstract words, pertaining to neither, are a critical test case: dissociations along lexical-grammatical lines would support models purporting lexical category as the principle governing brain organisati...
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عنوان ژورنال: Brain and Language
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0093-934X
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2014.03.001