Mapping Meanings

Trends Neurosci. 2018 Nov;41(11):770-772. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2018.08.003.

Abstract

In a 2016 paper, Huth and colleagues probed, in a general way, how word meanings map onto cortical locations. By comparing the fit between alternative maps, this methodology offered a means to evaluate what sorts of meaning representations the brain handles under ecologically realistic conditions.

Keywords: cortex; fMRI; semantics.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Brain / physiology*
  • Brain Mapping*
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Humans
  • Image Processing, Computer-Assisted* / methods
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods