I came across a report of this recently in the New Scientist and thought it might be important as it seems to suggest that the brain locations of names of objects and actions have some commonality across the brains of a range of different people.
The full text of the article from Neuron
“A Continuous Semantic Space Describes the Representation of Thousands of Object and Action Categories across the Human Brain”
can be accessed here http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2012.10.01
and includes a short video explanation
There is also an interactive tool that uses WebGL which can be activated on Macs with Snow Leopard and above, but it is much easier just to load Chrome for Mac. WebGL is said to run much faster on Chrome anyway, http://gallantlab.org/semanticmovies/
Brain still loading.
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