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Title: | Functional neuroanatomy of contextual acquisition of concrete and abstract words |
Author: | Mestres Missé, Anna Münte, Thomas F. Rodríguez Fornells, Antoni |
Keywords: | Neuroanatomia Paraula (Lingüística) Adquisició del llenguatge Context (Lingüística) Neuroanatomy Word (Linguistics) Language acquisition Context (Linguistics) |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press |
Abstract: | The meaning of a novel word can be acquired by extracting it from linguistic context. Here we simulated word learning of new words associated to concrete and abstract concepts in a variant of the human simulation paradigm that provided linguistic context information in order to characterize the brain systems involved. Native speakers of Spanish read pairs of sentences in order to derive the meaning of a new word that appeared in the terminal position of the sentences. fMRI revealed that learning the meaning associated to concrete and abstract new words was qualitatively different and recruited similar brain regions as the processing of real concrete and abstract words. In particular, learning of new concrete words selectively boosted the activation of the ventral anterior fusiform gyrus, a region driven by imageability, which has previously been implicated in the processing of concrete words. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.21171 |
It is part of: | Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2009, vol. 21, num. 11, p. 2154-2171 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/65102 |
Related resource: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn.2008.21171 |
ISSN: | 0898-929X |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Cognició, Desenvolupament i Psicologia de l'Educació) |
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