Interesting story.

….The atlas shows how words and related terms exercise the same regions of the brain. For example, on the left-hand side of the brain, above the ear, is one of the tiny regions that represents the word “victim”. The same region responds to “killed”, “convicted”, “murdered” and “confessed”. On the brain’s right-hand side, near the top of the head, is one of the brain spots activated by family terms: “wife”, “husband”, “children”, “parents”.

Each word is represented by more than one spot because words tend to have several meanings. One part of the brain, for example, reliably responds to the word “top”, along with other words that describe clothing. But the word “top” activates many other regions. One of them responds to numbers and measurements, another to buildings and places. The scientists have created an interactive website where the public can explore the brain atlas.

Full: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/27/brain-atlas-showing-how-words-are-organised-neuroscience

“Nature”

I’ll wait a few years to see if there’s a retraction

I wonder how it works for words you don’t know the meaning of and then learn what they mean and its tried again

The embedded video is the best bit.

Could be used to stimulate damaged parts of the brain by word association.

To create the atlas, the scientists recorded people’s brain activity while they listened to stories read out on The Moth Radio Hour,

I’d like to see the test re done reading text on a screen, to see if both match up