Reading salt activates gustatory brain regions: fMRI evidence for semantic grounding in a novel sensory modality.

ABSTRACT: Because many words are typically used in the context of their referent objects and actions, distributed cortical circuits for these words may bind information about their form with perceptual and motor aspects of their meaning. Previous work has demonstrated such semantic grounding for sensorimotor, visual, auditory, and olfactory knowledge linked to words, which is manifest in activation of the corresponding areas of the cortex. Here, we explore the brain basis of gustatory semantic links of words whose meaning is primarily related to taste. In a blocked functional magnetic resonance imaging design, Spanish taste words and control words matched for a range of factors (including valence, arousal, image-ability, frequency of use, number of letters and syllables) were presented to 59 right-h

SUBMITTER: Barros-Loscertales A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4705335 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature