“The Emergence of Semantic Meaning in the Ventral Temporal Pathway”
Discussion: How does language interact with vision? The authors of this study set out to determine whether the structure of semantic relationships among words is reflected in the structure of visual relationships in ITC. Representational similarity analysis was used to compare semantic relatedness to brain activity in ITC and primary visual cortex using the following measures:
- explicit behavioral ratings of semantic similarity
- lexicographically motivated measures of semantic relatedness (word definitions and hierarchical relationships)
- emergent relatedness measures (distributional patterns)
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