Lisa L. Conant

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: This paper used fMRI during oral naming of irregular words, regular words, and nonwords to test this theory against a competing single-mechanism account known as the triangle model, which proposes that all words are handled by a single system containing distributed orthographic, phonological, and semantic codes rather than word codes.

TL;DR: This study proposes a basic set of approximately 65 experiential attributes based on neurobiological considerations, comprising sensory, motor, spatial, temporal, affective, social, and cognitive experiences, and discusses how this representation might deal with various longstanding problems in semantic theory, such as feature selection and weighting, representation of abstract concepts, effects of context on semantic retrieval, and conceptual combination.

TL;DR: The view that the understanding of metaphoric action retains a link to sensory-motor systems involved in action performance is supported, and it is proposed that anterior inferior parietal lobule serves as an interface between sensory-Motor and conceptual systems and plays an important role in both domains.

TL;DR: The results indicate that aspects of conceptual knowledge are encoded in multimodal and higher level unimodal areas involved in processing the corresponding types of information during perception and action, in agreement with embodied theories of semantics.