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Neural correlates of category-specific knowledge

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Martin, Alex, Wiggs, Cheri L., Ungerleider, Leslie G., Haxby, James V.·1996·Nature
DOI 10.1038/379649a0
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AN intriguing and puzzling consequence of damage to the human brain is selective loss of knowledge about a specific category of objects. One patient may be unable to identify or name living things1–3, whereas another may have selective difficulty identifying man-made objects4–6. To investigate the neural correlates of this remarkable dissociation, we used positron emission tomography to map regions of the normal brain that are associated with naming animals and tools. We found that naming pictures of animals and tools was associated with bilateral activation of the ventral temporal lobes and Broca's area. In addition, naming animals selectively activated the left medial occipital lobe—a region involved in the earliest stages of visual processing. In contrast, naming tools selectively activated a left premotor area also activated by imagined hand movements7, and an area in the left middle temporal gyrus also activated by the generation of action words8–10. Thus the brain regions active during object identification are dependent, in part, on the intrinsic properties of the object presented.

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Authors
Martin, A., Wiggs, C. L., Ungerleider, L. G., & Haxby, J. V.
Venue
Nature
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
1996-02
Volume
379
Issue
6566
Pages
649-652
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
DOI
10.1038/379649a0
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1,551
References
3
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45.96
Type
journal article
Language
en
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