For exam-ple, negation of action-related sentences or imperatives involves decreased activity in motor systems of the brain implicated in action semantics when compared to the affirmative context (Tettamanti et al., 2008;Tomasino et al., 2010).
overall reduced activation does not necessarily equate to a lack of information across patterns of activated or deactivated voxels in a brain region (Kriegeskorte et al., 2008).