Spatiotemporal characteristics of the neural representation of event concepts.

ABSTRACT: Events are a fundamentally important part of our understanding of the world. How lexical concepts denoting events are represented in the brain remains controversial. We conducted two experiments using event and object nouns matched on a range of psycholinguistic variables, including concreteness, to examine spatial and temporal characteristics of event concepts. Both experiments used magnitude and valence tasks on event and object nouns. The fMRI experiment revealed a distributed set of regions for events, including the angular gyrus, anterior temporal lobe, and posterior cingulate across tasks. In the EEG experiment, events and objects differed in amplitude within the 300-500 ms window. Together these results shed light into the spatiotemporal characteristics of event concept representati

SUBMITTER: Desai RH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10873121 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature