Article
Beyond dual hubs: Task and aging shape taxonomic and thematic semantic relationships in the human brain
2026-02-20
Abstract excerpt
Semantic knowledge about concepts and their relationships is central to human cognition. Taxonomic relationships link concepts belonging to the same category (e.g. dog and bear), while thematic relationships connect concepts co-occurring in the same events (e.g. dog and leash). The dual-hub theory proposes that taxonomic relations preferentially engage the anterior temporal lobe (ATL), whereas thematic relations p...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 51988fa3-df93-5de4-a525-94bff90af821
- DOI
- 10.64898/2026.02.19.706838