Simmons W Kyle, Martin Alex
Laboratory of Brain & Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892-1366, USA.
J Int Neuropsychol Soc. 2009 Sep;15(5):645-9. doi: 10.1017/S1355617709990348. Epub 2009 Jul 27.
Recently, three accounts have emerged on the role of the anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) in semantic memory. One account claims that the ATLs are domain-general semantic hubs, another claims that they underlie knowledge of unique entities specifically, and yet another account claims that they support social conceptual knowledge generally. Here, we review neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies that bear on these three accounts and offer suggestions for future research to elucidate the roles of the ATLs in semantic memory.
最近，关于颞叶前部（ATLs）在语义记忆中的作用出现了三种观点。一种观点认为，ATLs是领域通用的语义枢纽；另一种观点认为，它们专门构成独特实体知识的基础；还有一种观点认为，它们总体上支持社会概念知识。在此，我们回顾了与这三种观点相关的神经心理学和神经影像学研究，并为未来研究提供建议，以阐明ATLs在语义记忆中的作用。
