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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Language comprehension and autobiographical imagination were traditionally thought to involve separate neurocognitive systems.
  • The semantic system (lateral temporal, parietal, frontal lobes) and the autobiographic/episodic system (midline cortical areas, hippocampus) were considered distinct.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the extent to which language comprehension engages the same brain areas as autobiographical experience imagination.
  • To identify shared neural representations between sentence comprehension and self-generated autobiographical mental imagery.

Main Methods:

  • Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) was used on 50 participants imagining unique experiences.
  • A pre-trained semantic decoder, derived from fMRI data during sentence reading, was applied to reconstruct self-reported experiential features from mental imagery fMRI data.
  • Zero-shot decoding was performed across participants and cognitive tasks.

Main Results:

  • Evidence of shared representations was found in both midline and lateral cortical areas during sentence comprehension and autobiographical mental imagery.
  • These shared representations were most prominent in midline regions.
  • Participant-specific autobiographical feature ratings were successfully decoded from fMRI data using the semantic decoder.

Conclusions:

  • Neural encoding of sentence meaning shares cortical areas and representational codes with self-generated autobiographical mental images.
  • This challenges the traditional view of separate neurocognitive systems for language and autobiographical memory.