Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Distinct roles of temporal and frontoparietal cortex in representing actions across vision and language

  • Moritz F. Wurm,
  • Alfonso Caramazza

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08084-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Temporal and frontoparietal brain areas both encode representations of actions, but whether they do so in different ways is unclear. Here, the authors show that only lateral posterior temporal cortex (LPTC) encodes representations that generalize across directly observed action scenes and written descriptions.