Neural Substrates of Specialized Knowledge Representation: An fMRI study

• Published in: Revue française de linguistique appliquée Vol. 19; no. 1; pp. 15 - 32
• Main Authors: Benitez, Pamela Faber, Verdejo, Juan, Leon, Pilar, Reimerink, Arianne, Guzman, Gloria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Brain; Cognitive Processes; Experts versus Novices; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Meaning; Semantic Analysis; Semantic Processing; Terminology

Brain-imaging techniques can be applied in specialized language research to provide insights into how specialized concepts are represented, and processed in the brain. The fMRI study described in this paper focused on general and specialized lexical units and the perception of semantic meaning by ex...