Rutvik H. Desai

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: An improved modality-specific cost functional which uses a weighted local Pearson coefficient (LPC) to align T2- and T1-weighted images and emphasizes the importance of precise visual inspection of alignment quality and presents an automated method for generating composite images that help capture errors of misalignment.

TL;DR: Functional magnetic resonance imaging data offer the first clear evidence, in a single study, for the separate neural correlates of orthography–phonology mapping and semantic access during reading aloud.

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.