%0 Journal Article %1 Vandenberghe1996a %A Vandenberghe, R. %A Price, C. %A Wise, R. %A Josephs, O. %A Frackowiak, R. S. %D 1996 %J Nature %K Adult; Aged; Agnosia; Auditory Brain Brain; Emission-Computed; Humans; Lobe; Male; Mapping; Middle Occipital Parietal Perception Perception; Semantics; Speech Tomography, Visual %P 254--256 %R 10.1038/383254a0 %T Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures. %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/383254a0 %V 383 %X The relationship between the semantic processing of words and of pictures is a matter of debate among cognitive scientists. We studied the functional anatomy of such processing by using positron-emission tomography (PET). We contrasted activity during two semantic tasks (probing knowledge of associations between concepts, and knowledge of the visual attributes of these concepts) and a baseline task (discrimination of physical stimulus size), performed either with words or with pictures. Modality-specific activations unrelated to semantic processing occurred in the left inferior parietal lobule for words, and the right middle occipital gyrus for pictures. A semantic network common to both words and pictures extended from the left superior occipital gyrus through the middle and inferior temporal cortex to the inferior frontal gyrus. A picture-specific activation related to semantic tasks occurred in the left posterior inferior temporal sulcus, and word-specific activations related to semantic tasks were localized to the left superior temporal sulcus, left anterior middle temporal gyrus, and left inferior frontal sulcus. Thus semantic tasks activate a distributed semantic processing system shared by both words and pictures, with a few specific areas differentially active for either words or pictures.

@article{Vandenberghe1996a, abstract = {The relationship between the semantic processing of words and of pictures is a matter of debate among cognitive scientists. We studied the functional anatomy of such processing by using positron-emission tomography (PET). We contrasted activity during two semantic tasks (probing knowledge of associations between concepts, and knowledge of the visual attributes of these concepts) and a baseline task (discrimination of physical stimulus size), performed either with words or with pictures. Modality-specific activations unrelated to semantic processing occurred in the left inferior parietal lobule for words, and the right middle occipital gyrus for pictures. A semantic network common to both words and pictures extended from the left superior occipital gyrus through the middle and inferior temporal cortex to the inferior frontal gyrus. A picture-specific activation related to semantic tasks occurred in the left posterior inferior temporal sulcus, and word-specific activations related to semantic tasks were localized to the left superior temporal sulcus, left anterior middle temporal gyrus, and left inferior frontal sulcus. Thus semantic tasks activate a distributed semantic processing system shared by both words and pictures, with a few specific areas differentially active for either words or pictures.}, added-at = {2007-12-16T20:00:22.000+0100}, author = {Vandenberghe, R. and Price, C. and Wise, R. and Josephs, O. and Frackowiak, R. S.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2e8aa5bab0a08a0e2499547974e24d201/perceptron}, doi = {10.1038/383254a0}, interhash = {1a02846cc065684de60b5340a4fb792d}, intrahash = {e8aa5bab0a08a0e2499547974e24d201}, journal = {Nature}, keywords = {Adult; Aged; Agnosia; Auditory Brain Brain; Emission-Computed; Humans; Lobe; Male; Mapping; Middle Occipital Parietal Perception Perception; Semantics; Speech Tomography, Visual}, pages = {254--256}, pmid = {8805700}, timestamp = {2007-12-16T20:00:27.000+0100}, title = {Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/383254a0}, volume = 383, year = 1996 }