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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Neuroimaging

Background:

  • Understanding semantic information organization in the brain is a key challenge.
  • Previous research focused on concept representation, leaving the location of relation representation unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate where relational semantic information is represented in the brain, independent of concept information.
  • To link neural representations of semantic relations to behavioral measures of reasoning.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized a large language model to extract relational embeddings from text.
  • Collected behavioral data (n=636) and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data (n=60).
  • Applied representational similarity analysis to fMRI data using extracted embeddings.

Main Results:

  • Large language model embeddings captured independent concept and relational information.
  • Occipital and inferior temporal lobes primarily represent isolated concepts.
  • Parietal structures represent both concepts and relations.
  • Dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and basal ganglia showed robust relational representation with minimal concept representation.
  • Strength of relational representation correlated with reasoning abilities.

Conclusions:

  • The study maps the neural representation of concepts and their relations in the brain.
  • Identified distinct brain regions for concept-only, concept-and-relation, and relation-only processing.
  • Demonstrated a link between neural encoding of semantic relations and behavioral reasoning.