Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile human cerebral cortex (Huth et al., Nature, 2016)
April 27, 2016
We collected fMRI while subjects listened to narrative stories and recovered detailed lexical-semantic maps by voxelwise modeling. The semantic system is organized into intricate patterns that are consistent across individuals. Most areas represent information about groups of related concepts, and our semantic atlas shows which concepts are represented in each area.