Scientists say they have made an atlas of where words' meanings are located in the brain. The map shows that words are represented in different regions throughout the brain's outer layer.

This method allowed researchers to map word meaning to small regions ... by ‘mouse’ and ‘carrot.’ Other groups of neurons responded to words associated with more-abstract concepts ...

In order to create the map above, we used a layered, multistep approach. First, we called up some linguists who helped us make an initial list of unique words that are in one way or another ...