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Using brain scans of people suffering from Semantic Dementia — the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease in people under 65 — they have found that the front end of the temporal lobe seems to be crucial to conceptual application.
“People have been talking about how the brain encodes concepts for 150 years. We believe we have found it,” Matthew Lambon-Ralph of Manchester University told the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science on Wednesday.
Previously the part of the brain dealing with concepts was thought to be Wernicke’s area, which is further back on the temporal lobe, but scans and experiments showed degradation of the front end seemed to be key. [Read on]