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. 2018 Dec 7;9:5250. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07574-3

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Fig. 5 — Perceptible concepts processing is supported by the medial ATL. a A contrast of concrete everyday objects as compared with typical abstract words in the combined subject group (n = 26, in a; see b for sighted group separately) shows a network of regions associated with multisensory object perception (data from Exp. 1). In the ATL, the medial ATL shows preference for processing concrete objects. b The contrast of concrete everyday objects as compared with typical abstract words in the sighted group replicates the effect of both groups (panel A) in medial ATL (data from Exp. 1). c The contrast for perceptible vs. imperceptible concepts in the blind shows medial ATL prefers perceptible concepts (data from Exp. 1). d Medial ATL shows a perceptibility effect in the blind group across content domains (2-way ANOVA, perceptibility and content domain; data from Exp. 1). e The perceptibility effect differs between the groups in medial ATL (cluster labeled mATL), as evident from a group X imperceptibility interaction (data from Exp. 1). f Data sampled from mATL (the cluster shown in e) in the independent Experiment 2 replicates the preference for perceptible (e.g., “rain”) over imperceptible (“rainbow”) concepts in the blind in medial ATL, although the concepts are perceptible via non-visual modalities. Error bars represent standard error of the difference between means for the perceptible and imperceptible words in each content domain. Asterisks represent statistically significant difference between perceptible and imperceptible concepts (paired t test, t(22) > 3.505, p < 0.05, Bonferroni corrected for multiple comparisons)