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System: Speech Areas |
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| • | Not
monolithic areas. Rather, category-specific with |
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| strongest
activation spatially proximal to the sensory or |
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area associated with that category: |
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| – | Words
for manipulable objects (tools) activate reaching / grasping |
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| motor areas |
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| – | Words
for movement activate next to visual motion areas |
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| – | Words
for complex objects (faces) activate visual recognition areas |
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| Ref: fMRI of
language: Susan Bookheimer, Ann. Rev. Neurosci. 25:151-88,
2002 |