Journal article
A role for left temporal pole in the retrieval of words for unique entities
Human brain mapping, Vol.13(4), pp.199-212
08/2001
DOI: 10.1002/hbm.1033
PMCID: PMC6871982
PMID: 11410949
Abstract
Both lesion and functional imaging studies have implicated sectors of high‐order association cortices of the left temporal lobe in the retrieval of words for objects belonging to varied conceptual categories. In particular, the cortices located in the left temporal pole have been associated with naming unique persons from faces. Because this neuroanatomical‐behavioral association might be related to either the specificity of the task (retrieving a name at unique level) or to the possible preferential processing of faces by anterior temporal cortices, we performed a PET imaging experiment to test the hypothesis that the effect is related to the specificity of the word retrieval task. Normal subjects were asked to name at unique level entities from two conceptual categories: famous landmarks and famous faces. In support of the hypothesis, naming entities in both categories was associated with increases in activity in the left temporal pole. No main effect of category (faces vs. landmarks/buildings) or interaction of task and category was found in the left temporal pole. Retrieving names for unique persons and for names for unique landmarks activate the same brain region. These findings are consistent with the notion that activity in the left temporal pole is linked to the level of specificity of word retrieval rather than the conceptual class to which the stimulus belongs. Hum. Brain Mapping 13:199–212, 2001. © 2001 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A role for left temporal pole in the retrieval of words for unique entities
- Creators
- Thomas J GrabowskiHanna DamasioDaniel TranelLaura L. Boles PontoRichard D HichwaAntonio R Damasio
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Human brain mapping, Vol.13(4), pp.199-212
- DOI
- 10.1002/hbm.1033
- PMID
- 11410949
- PMCID
- PMC6871982
- NLM abbreviation
- Hum Brain Mapp
- ISSN
- 1065-9471
- eISSN
- 1097-0193
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons, Inc; New York
- Number of pages
- 14
- Grant note
- NIH (DC 03189)
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/2001
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Radiology; Research Administration; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Pharmaceutical Sciences and Experimental Therapeutics; Physics and Astronomy; Radiation Oncology
- Record Identifier
- 9984002364002771
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