Leen Van Doren

The amodal system for conscious word and picture identification in the absence of a semantic task.

Neuroimage December 29, 2009 Leen Van Doren, Patrick Dupont, Sophie De Grauwe et al.

Previous studies using explicit semantic tasks, such as category or similarity judgments, have revealed considerable neuroanatomical overlap between processing of the meaning of words and pictures. This result may have been influenced by the semantic executive control required by such tasks. We examined the degree of overlap while minimizing semantic executive demands. In a first fMRI...