Abstract
Although the distributed-plus-hub organization of semantic memory has been proposed for several years, it remains unclear which hubs other than the anterior temporal lobe are included in the semantic system. Here, we identified such hubs from an innovative network perspective. The voxelwise nodal degree values were correlated with the performance of general and modality-specific semantic tasks in 86 patients with brain damage. We observed that the left anterior temporal lobe and bilateral anterior cingulate cortex could be semantic hubs because their decreased nodal degree values were significantly correlated with the severity of the deficit in semantic performance. The two hub regions might contribute to semantic representational and control processes, respectively. These findings offer new evidence for the distributed-plus-hub theory.
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