Distinct Brain Systems for Processing Concrete and Abstract Concepts

By Jeffrey R. Binder, Chris F. Westbury, Kristen A. McKiernan, E. T. Possing, David A. Medler. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2005

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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The Neurobiology of Semantic Memory (2011, neutral): “There are, however, several reasons to question claims that the TP is the sole or principal focus of high-level information convergence.”
The neuroscience of conceptual learning in science and mathematics (2016, background): “That said, ‘conceptual’ knowledge is located in broad distributed networks [28] involving many parts of the brain, including: (1) overlapping but partly distinct neural systems for processing concrete and abstract concepts, with greater involvement of bilateral association areas during concrete word”
Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning (2012, background): “This effect, fully demonstrated in the literature, mirrors the easier processability (Binder et al. 2005) and better memorability of concrete words (Allen and Hulme 2006; Fliessbach et al.”
Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension (2006, background): “Randomly ordered stimulus lists (word lists lacking syntactic structure) produced a reduced blood oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal in the left anterior STS compared to syntactically well-formed sentences, regardless of whether the stimuli were composed of semantically congruent words,…”
Thinking in Words: Language as an Embodied Medium of Thought (2014, background): “, 2005) and inferior regions of the left prefrontal cortex (Binder et al., 2005; Giesbrecht et al., 2004; Goldberg, Perfetti, & Schneider, 2006; Noppeney & Price, 2004; Sabsevitz et al., 2005).”
Conceptual representations in mind and brain: theoretical developments, current evidence and future directions. (2012, background): “…stronger left-lateralized brain responses whereas concrete words were associated with more symmetric hemispheric responses (Neville et al., 1992) or even greater right hemisphere activation (Binder et al., 2005) as predicted by the Dual Coding Theory (for a review, see Pulvermüller, 2007).”
The representation of abstract words: why emotion matters. (2011, methodology): “Some studies have found more bilateral activations during concrete word processing (Binder et al., 2005; Sabsevitz et al., 2005), while other studies have shown that there is no right hemisphere involvement in the processing of concrete words, and if anything, there are more right-hemispheric…”