Functional magnetic resonance imaging of taxonomic and thematic processing of abstract and concrete word pairs.

ABSTRACT: This study used fMRI to examine the effect that the abstract-concrete dimension may have on the thematic-taxonomic distinction. The dual hub theory (DHT) posits that left angular gyrus supports thematic relationships and left temporal pole supports taxonomic relationships; however, the DHT is largely based on evidence from concrete words. It is important that theories of semantic organization include abstract words as they are ubiquitous in everyday discourse (Lupyan & Winter, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 2018, 373, 20170137). Additionally, there is reason to believe that there may bean interaction between the abstract-concrete dimension and the thematic-taxonomic distinction, based on the different representational frameworks (D

SUBMITTER: Stochel JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12424115 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature