Inferior parietal lobule is sensitive to different semantic similarity relations for concrete and abstract words.

ABSTRACT: Similarity measures, the extent to which two concepts have similar meanings, are the key to understand how concepts are represented, with different theoretical perspectives relying on very different sources of data from which similarity can be calculated. While there is some commonality in similarity measures, the extent of their correlation is limited. Previous studies also suggested that the relative performance of different similarity measures may also vary depending on concept concreteness and that the inferior parietal lobule (IPL) may be involved in the integration of conceptual features in a multimodal system for the semantic categorization. Here, we tested for the first time whether theory-based similarity measures predict the pattern of brain activity in the IPL differently for ab

SUBMITTER: Montefinese M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7612868 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature