Jeffrey R. Binder

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed 120 functional neuroimaging studies focusing on semantic processing and identified reliable areas of activation in these studies using the activation likelihood estimate (ALE) technique, which formed a distinct, left-lateralized network comprised of 7 regions: posterior inferior parietal lobe, middle temporal gyrus, fusiform and parahippocampal gyri, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, inferior frontal gyrus and posterior cingulate gyrus.

TL;DR: It is shown that large brain regions that participate in comprehension tasks but are not modality-specific lie at convergences of multiple perceptual processing streams, which enable increasingly abstract, supramodal representations of perceptual experience that support a variety of conceptual functions including object recognition, social cognition, language, and the remarkable human capacity to remember the past and imagine the future.

TL;DR: Although partly in conflict with the classical model of language localization, FMRI findings are generally compatible with reported lesion data and provide additional support for ongoing efforts to refine and extend the classicalmodel.

TL;DR: Recording of blood oxygenation signals from the temporal lobes of normal volunteers using functional magnetic resonance imaging indicates functional subdivision of the human lateral temporal cortex and provides a preliminary framework for understanding the cortical processing of speech sounds.

TL;DR: Results suggest that TID represents reallocation of processing resources from areas in which TID occurs to areas involved in task performance, and short-term memory load and stimulus rate also predict suppression of spontaneous thought.