Neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a morphologically rich language: An fMRI study  

Oleh:

Lehtonen, Minna ; Vorobyev, Victor A. ; Hugdahl, Kenneth ; Tuokkola, Terhi ; Laine, Matti

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 98 no. 2 (2006), page 182-193.
Topik: Morphological processing; Infection; fMRI; Finnish; Visual word form processing; Semantic processing; Syntactic processing
Fulltext: 98_02_Lehtonen.pdf (342.59KB)

Isi artikel

By employing visual lexical decision and functional MRI, we studied the neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a highly infected language (Finnish) where most infected noun forms elicit a consistent processing cost during word recognition. This behavioral effect could refect suYx stripping at the visual word form level and/or subsequent meaning integration at the semantic-syntactic level. The Wrst alternative predicts increased activation for infected vs. monomorphemic words in the left occipitotemporal cortex while the second alternative predicts left inferior frontal gyrus and/or left posterior temporal activation increases. The results show significant activation effects in the latter areas. This provides support for the second alternative, i.e., that the morphological processing cost stems from the semantic-syntactic level.

Opini Anda

Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini!

Kembali