The meaning of language is represented in regions of the cerebral cortex collectively known as the ‘semantic system’. However, little of the semantic system has been mapped comprehensively, and the ...

Subjects in the experiments behind this semantic map had to sit in an fMRI for hours at a time, listening to The Moth Radio Hour, a storytelling podcast. Later, the researchers would painstakingly ...

A new brain mapping experiment shows that whether you read or listen to a book, the same parts of the brain are stimulated to help you understand and respond to the meaning of the words (or the ...