1994; Nobre et al., 1994), with word-specific potentials recorded in the LT areas as well (Halgren et al., 1994). Lesions of the left temporal lobe result in impaired semantic comprehension at the single-word level (Hart and Gordon, 1990; Dronkers et al., 2004). Furthermore, the gradient of atrophy in the temporal cortex is specifically related to deficits in semantic memory in patients suffering from semantic dementia (Mummery et al., 2000; Rogers et al., 2006). Neuroimaging studies confirm that the LT cortex is involved specifically during semantic retrieval (Gold and Buckner, 2002; Noppeney et al., 2004; Ruff et al., 2008).
