Figure 1.

Activity in the angular gyrus was modulated by meaningful combinations, independent of the category of semantic information forming the combination. A, Subjects viewed pairs of real words whose combinations were considered to be meaningful (e.g., plaid jacket) or nonmeaningful (e.g., moss pony) based on the results of a norming study. B, fMRI activation in healthy adults for the meaningful combinatorial word pairs relative to the nonmeaningful combinatorial word pairs (p < 0.001 voxelwise, cluster-level p < 0.05 whole-brain corrected for family wise error; this was a cluster of 4584 μl with a peak at [−52 −56 22]). C, There were no differences in activation between the four sensorimotor semantic categories of meaningful combinations within the left angular gyrus activation cluster shown in B (error bars represent ± 1 SEM).