The Language Network Reliably "Tracks" Naturalistic Meaningful Nonverbal Stimuli.

ABSTRACT: The language network, comprised of brain regions in the left frontal and temporal cortex, responds robustly and reliably during language comprehension but shows little or no response during many nonlinguistic cognitive tasks (e.g., Fedorenko & Blank, 2020). However, one domain whose relationship with language remains debated is semantics-our conceptual knowledge of the world. Given that the language network responds strongly to meaningful linguistic stimuli, could some of this response be driven by the presence of rich conceptual representations encoded in linguistic inputs? In this study, we used a naturalistic cognition paradigm to test whether the cognitive and neural resources that are responsible for language processing are also recruited for processing semantically rich nonverbal sti

SUBMITTER: Sueoka Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11192443 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature