When abstract becomes concrete, naturalistic encoding of concepts in the brain.

ABSTRACT: Language is acquired and processed in complex and dynamic naturalistic contexts, involving the simultaneous processing of connected speech, faces, bodies, objects, etc. How words and their associated concepts are encoded in the brain during real-world processing is still unknown. Here, the representational structure of concrete and abstract concepts was investigated during movie watching to address the extent to which brain responses dynamically change depending on visual context. First, across contexts, concrete and abstract concepts are shown to encode different experience-based information in separable sets of brain regions. However, these differences are reduced when multimodal context is considered. Specifically, the response profile of abstract words becomes more concrete-like when t

SUBMITTER: Kewenig VN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11620750 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature