“…The extent connectivity of the aMTG with parietal-occipital was also much greater during abstract semantic processing, but this was not the case for connectivity with frontal areas. This finding was unexpected given that the anterior temporal cortex plays an important role in the processing of abstract concepts ( Hoffman et al, 2015 ), and the frontal anterior cingulate cortices important for higher cognitive functions, such as abstract reasoning ( Reverberi et al, 2005 ; Jung et al, 2022 ), problem solving ( Grossman et al, 2002 ; Newman et al, 2003 ; Cazalis et al, 2006 ; Feng et al, 2021 ), judgment and decision making ( Zysset et al, 2002 ; Cunningham et al, 2004 ; Beer et al, 2010 ; Zander et al, 2016 ), creativity ( Gonen-Yaacovi et al, 2013 ), the supervisory control of attention and intention ( Shallice and Burgess, 1996 ; Cohen et al, 1999 ), planning ( Goel and Grafman, 1995 ; Gonen-Yaacovi et al, 2013 ), goal-directed and generative action and cognition ( Cohen et al, 1999 ; Baldo et al, 2001 ; Reverberi et al, 2005 ). Accordingly, it would be reasonable to infer that the aMTG would be more extensively connected to frontal cortex when processing abstract words.…”