Thomas L. Botch

Dec 17, 2024 | cell.com | Anna Mynick |Adam Steel |Thomas L. Botch |Allie Burrows |Caroline E. Robertson |Adithi Jayaraman

Nov 6, 2024 | jneurosci.org | Thomas L. Botch |Emily Finn

Neural Representations of Concreteness and Concrete Concepts Are Specific to the Individual Thomas L. Botch, Emily S. Finn Journal of Neuroscience 6 November 2024, 44 (45) e0288242024; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0288-24.2024

Sep 23, 2024 | jneurosci.org | Thomas L. Botch |Emily Finn

AbstractDifferent people listening to the same story may converge upon a largely shared interpretation while still developing idiosyncratic experiences atop that shared foundation. What linguistic properties support this individualized experience of natural language? Here, we investigate how the “concrete-abstract” axis — i.e., the extent to which a word is grounded in sensory experience — relates to within- and across-subject variability in the neural representations of language.

Sep 9, 2023 | biorxiv.org | Thomas L. Botch |Emily Finn

AbstractDifferent people listening to the same story may converge upon a largely shared interpretation while still developing idiosyncratic experiences atop that shared foundation. What semantic properties support this individualized experience of natural language? Here, we investigate how the "concreteness" of word meanings — i.e., the extent to which a concept is derived from sensory experience — relates to variability in the neural representations of language.