Neural pathways involved in the processing of concrete and abstract words

KA Kiehl, PF Liddle, AM Smith, A Mendrek… - Human brain …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
The purpose of this study was to delineate the neural pathways involved in processing
concrete and abstract words using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Word and …

Auditory and visual word processing studied with fMRI

MWL Chee, KM O'Craven, R Bergida… - Human brain …, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Brain activations associated with semantic processing of visual and auditory words were
investigated using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). For each form of word …

A comparison of brain activity evoked by single content and function words: an fMRI investigation of implicit word processing

MT Diaz, G McCarthy - Brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
Content and function words have different roles in language and differ greatly in their
semantic content. Although previous research has suggested that these different roles may …

Brain activation for lexical decision and reading aloud: two sides of the same coin?

M Carreiras, A Mechelli, A Estévez… - Journal of cognitive …, 2007 - direct.mit.edu
This functional magnetic resonance imaging study compared the neuronal implementation
of word and pseudoword processing during two commonly used word recognition tasks …

Modality independence of word comprehension

JR Booth, DD Burman, JR Meyer… - Human brain …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to examine the functional anatomy
of word comprehension in the auditory and visual modalities of presentation. We asked our …

A procedure for identifying regions preferentially activated by attention to semantic and phonological relations using functional magnetic resonance imaging

KB McDermott, SE Petersen, JM Watson, JG Ojemann - Neuropsychologia, 2003 - Elsevier
A procedure is introduced for using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
techniques to identify neural regions associated with attention to semantic and phonological …

The lexical processing of abstract and concrete nouns

C Papagno, A Fogliata, E Catricalà, C Miniussi - Brain research, 2009 - Elsevier
Recent activation studies have suggested different neural correlates for processing concrete
and abstract words. However, the precise localization is far from being defined. One reason …

Processing concrete words: fMRI evidence against a specific right-hemisphere involvement

CJ Fiebach, AD Friederici - Neuropsychologia, 2004 - Elsevier
Behavioral, patient, and electrophysiological studies have been taken as support for the
assumption that processing of abstract words is confined to the left hemisphere, whereas …

Segregating semantic and syntactic aspects of processing in the human brain: an fMRI investigation of different word types

AD Friederici, B Opitz, DY Von Cramon - Cerebral cortex, 2000 - academic.oup.com
The processing of single words that varied in their semantic (concrete/abstract word) and
syntactic (content/function word) status was investigated under different task demands …

Relation between brain activation and lexical performance

JR Booth, DD Burman, JR Meyer… - Human brain …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to determine whether performance
on lexical tasks was correlated with cerebral activation patterns. We found that such …