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  • 8 - The semantic representation of nouns and verbs

  • from Part IV - Representations of Nouns and Verbs vs. Objects and Actions
  • Edited by John Hart, University of Texas, Dallas, Michael A. Kraut, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  • Book:
    Neural Basis of Semantic Memory
    Published online:
    14 September 2009
    Print publication:
    22 March 2007, pp 205-216

  • Summary

    The sensory/functional theory (SFT) was originally motivated by a series of remarkable observations about the neurobiology of language production. Some case series have shown that the manipulation of imageability affects performance on noun and verb production tasks only for a subset of patients suggesting that the extended sensory/functional theory (ESFT) is not adequate to explain many cases of impairment in noun or verb naming. A different variation on the theme of the SFT maintains that nouns and verbs differ primarily not in the proportion of functional or nonperceptual information with which they are associated, but in the kind of sensory information by which they are prototypically defined. Some evidence consistent with the idea that the categorization of words as nouns or verbs depends on a core semantic structure comes from a recent study using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with English speaking subjects.