The impact of semantic reference on word class: An fMRI study of action and object naming

Saccuman, Maria Cristina; Cappa, Stefano F.; Bates, Elizabeth; Arévalo, Analía; Rosa, Pasquale Anthony Della; Danna, Massimo; Perani, Daniela

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2006.04.179

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“…According to recent findings (e.g., Bak, Yankopoulou, Nestor, et al, 2006), the semantic representations in the former category are heavily based on motor information, thus relying on completely different neural circuits including the posterior parietal (Berlingeri et al, 2008) and the primary motor cortex (Hauk, Johnsrude, & Pulvermuller, 2004). Although some data are in line with this suggestion (e.g., Kemmerer, Gonzalez Castillo, Talavage, Patterson, & Wiley, 2008), the results of two studies that investigated tool-related motor verbs in the context of the same experimental task (i.e., picture naming) are very informative in this respect; while Saccuman et al (2006) report that verbs activate the left inferior parietal lobule, the right fusiform gyrus, and the left cerebellum more than nouns, Damasio et al (2001) describe significant verb-related activations in the mid temporal gyrus bilaterally. Hence the neural circuits described in the two studies do not overlap even though the same class of verbs was investigated.…”

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“…It might have been expected that the different experimental techniques adopted (e.g., anatomo-clinical correlations, fMRI, MEG) and various behavioural tasks used to investigate the anatomical underpinnings of noun and verb processing would account for the discrepancies, but contrasting findings were reported even in studies using the same methodology and, in several cases, also the same experimental tasks (e.g., Perani et al, 1999 andTyler et al, 2001;Siri et al, 2008 andSaccuman et al, 2006;Shapiro et al, 2001 andCappa et al, 2002). The presence of inconsistent results within task and methodology makes it even less appropriate to compare results across tasks and methodologies.…”

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“…Baseline tasks were not even included in the factorial experimental design employed by Saccuman, Cappa, Bates et al (2006), and Siri, Tettamanti, Cappa et al (2008). In the former study, no brain areas passed the FDR-corrected .05 threshold in the verbs-minus-nouns comparison; when a more lenient threshold was adopted, the left inferior parietal lobule, the right fusiform gyrus and the left cerebellum appeared to be associated with verbs.…”

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“…(2002) could be explained by the fact that in the former study subjects were asked to carry out a morphological task, while in the latter they had to name pictures; however, this would indicate that frontal regions are crucial for inflecting verbs, but not for retrieving them, in conflict with some fMRI and PET evidence (e.g., Saccuman et al, 2006;Sahin et al, 2006). Oliveri, Finocchiaro, Shapiro, Gangitano, Caramazza, and Pascual Leone (2004) conducted a further rTMS study, in which the left primary motor cortex was found to play a critical role in the retrieval of action words irrespective of their grammatical class (i.e.…”

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A place for nouns and a place for verbs? A critical review of neurocognitive data on grammatical-class effects

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It is generally held that noun processing is specifically sub-served by temporal areas, while the neural underpinnings of verb processing are located in the frontal lobe. However, this view is now challenged by a significant body of evidence accumulated over the years. Moreover, the results obtained so far on the neural implementation of noun and verb processing appear to be quite inconsistent. The present review briefly describes and critically re-considers the anatomo-correlative, neuroimaging, MEG, TMS and cortical stimulation studies on nouns and verbs with the aim of assessing the consistency of their results, particularly within technique. The paper also addresses the question as to whether the inconsistency of the data could be due to the variety of the tasks used. However, it emerged that neither the different investigation techniques used nor the different cognitive tasks employed fully explain the variability of the data. In the final section we thus suggest that the main reason for the emergence of inconsistent data in this field is that the cerebral circuits underlying noun and verb processing are not spatially segregated, at least for the spatial resolution currently used in most neuroimaging studies.

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“…In particular, action-related objects selectively activate a network of neural areas including the ventral premotor cortex (vPMC), inferior parietal cortex, posterior lateral temporal cortex and medial temporal cortex (Beauchamp & Martin, 2007;Chao & Martin, 2000;Saccuman et al, 2006; but see also Assmus, Giessing, Weiss, & Fink, 2007). These sensorimotor lexical representations have been shown to be highly sensitive to the way in which an object is used functionally.…”

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Body schematics: On the role of the body schema in embodied lexical–semantic representations

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a b s t r a c tWords denoting manipulable objects activate sensorimotor brain areas, likely reflecting action experience with the denoted objects. In particular, these sensorimotor lexical representations have been found to reflect the way in which an object is used. In the current paper we present data from two experiments (one behavioral and one neuroimaging) in which we investigate whether body schema information, putatively necessary for interacting with functional objects, is also recruited during lexical processing. To this end, we presented participants with words denoting objects that are typically brought towards or away from the body (e.g., cup or key, respectively). We hypothesized that objects typically brought to a location on the body (e.g., cup) are relatively more reliant on body schema representations, since the final goal location of the cup (i.e., the mouth) is represented primarily through posture and body coordinates. In contrast, objects typically brought to a location away from the body (e.g., key) are relatively more dependent on visuo-spatial representations, since the final goal location of the key (i.e., a keyhole) is perceived visually. The behavioral study showed that prior planning of a movement along an axis towards and away from the body facilitates processing of words with a congruent action semantic feature (i.e., preparation of movement towards the body facilitates processing of cup.). In an fMRI study we showed that words denoting objects brought towards the body engage the resources of brain areas involved in the processing information about human bodies (i.e., the extra-striate body area, middle occipital gyrus and inferior parietal lobe) relatively more than words denoting objects typically brought away from the body. The results provide converging evidence that body schema are implicitly activated in processing lexical information.

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Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading

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The Handbook of the Neuropsychology of Language

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The impact of semantic reference on word class: An fMRI study of action and object naming

Cited by 113 publications

References 103 publications

A place for nouns and a place for verbs? A critical review of neurocognitive data on grammatical-class effects

A place for nouns and a place for verbs? A critical review of neurocognitive data on grammatical-class effects

Body schematics: On the role of the body schema in embodied lexical–semantic representations

Connectionist Modeling of Neuropsychological Deficits in Semantics, Language, and Reading

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