Do body-part concepts depend on the EBA/FBA?

Abstract

Downing and Peelen argue that the EBA/FBA represent body-part shapes in a highly schematic manner that is independent of personal identity, emotional expression, movement pattern, and action goal, and that cuts across visual and haptic modalities. According to the grounded cognition framework, these properties make the EBA/FBA suitable for processing body-part shapes not only for perceptual purposes but also for conceptual purposes. Any account of the neural substrates of body-part concepts must, however, accommodate significant cross-linguistic diversity in this semantic domain. Hence, an alternative possibility is that the shape components of body-part concepts depend on areas adjacent to the EBA/FBA.