Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension  

Oleh:

Ikuta, Naho ; Sugiura, Motoaki ; Sassa, Yuko ; Watanabe, Jobu ; Akitsuki, Yuko ; Iwata, Kazuki ; Miura, Naoki ; Okamoto, Hideyuki ; Watanabe, Yoshihiko ; Sato, Shigeru ; Horie, Kaoru ; Matsue, Yoshihiko ; Kawashima, Ryuta

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 97 no. 2 (2006), page 154-161.
Topik: fMRI; Language; Sentence comprehension; Reading; Brain imaging; On-line processing; Lingual gyrus; Supplementary motor area; Inferior frontal gyrus; Inferior temporal gyrus
Fulltext: 97_02_Ikuta.pdf (482.66KB)

Isi artikel

The purpose of this study is to determine, by functional magnetic resonance imaging, how the activated regions of the brain change as a Japanese sentence is presented in a grammatically correct order. In this study, we presented constituents of a sentence to Japanese participants one by one at regular intervals. The results showed that the left lingual gyrus was signiWcantly activated at the beginning of the sentence, then the left inferior frontal gyrus and left supplementary motor area, in the middle of the sentence, and the left inferior temporal gyrus, at the end of the sentence. We suggest that these brain areas are involved in sentence comprehension in this temporal order.

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