Engagement of the left extrastriate body area during body-part metaphor comprehension

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• 作者：Simon Lacey^a ; Randall Stilla^a ; Gopikrishna Deshpande^e ; ^f ; ^g ; Sinan Zhao^e ; Careese Stephens^a ; Kelly McCormick^c ; David Kemmerer^h ; ⁱ ; K. Sathian^a ; ^b ; ^c ; ^d ; ^{krish.sathian@emory.edu}
• 关键词：Grounded cognition ; Embodied cognition ; Visual cortex ; fMRI ; Resting-state functional connectivity ; Effective connectivity
• 刊名：Brain and Language
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：166
• 期：Complete
• 页码：1-18
• 全文大小：2863 K
• 卷排序：166

文摘

Body part metaphor-specific activity in left extrastriate body area (EBA). EBA metaphor-specific responses, like visual responses, are limb-selective. The EBA shows resting-state functional connectivity with language and sensory areas. Language-related areas drive EBA activity during comprehension of limb metaphors. Our findings support grounding of metaphor processing in sensory cortical activity.