Towards an integrative model of spoken and written word processing in the intact brain and its decline in primary progressive aphasia and neurodegenerative disease KU Leuven
This proposal starts from a multidimensional model of semantic associations of more than 13,000 words. Its aim is to determine how the principal dimensions of the semantic space are reflected in the organization of brain networks involved in processing word meaning. Empirically these are valence and concreteness. We hypothesize that these dimensions will influence how representations in the perisylvian language network connect with ...