Lexical Semantics and Grammatical Categories: Dynamicity in the Noun/Verb Distinction. An fMRI study
Domenica Romagno · CINECA IRIS Institutial research information system (University of Pisa) · 2010
What is the critical difference between verbs and nouns that drives verb-selective regions and, in particular, the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (MTG)? In the present study, we test the hypothesis that it is the difference in dynamicity between previously-used verbs (e.g. “to walk” or “to think”) and nouns (e.g. “the table” or “the idea”) that drives previously-identified verb-selective regions.