Individual functional coupling between multimodal left PPC and M1/S1 during action knowledge retrieval (PPI t-value for high > low action words during action judgments) predicted participants’ personal action associations (A) but not sound associations (B) for action-related words. Conversely, functional coupling between PPC and AAC during sound feature retrieval (PPI t-value for high > low sound words during sound judgments) correlated with participants’ individual sound associations (D) but not action associations (C) for sound-related words.