Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension

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

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2005.10.006

Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension

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

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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 significantly 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	154-161
Number of pages	8
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	97
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2005.10.006
Publication status	Published - 2006 May

Keywords

Brain imaging
Inferior frontal gyrus
Inferior temporal gyrus
Language
Lingual gyrus
On-line processing
Reading
Sentence comprehension
Supplementary motor area
fMRI

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience
Speech and Hearing

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Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension. / 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.

In: Brain and Language, Vol. 97, No. 2, 05.2006, p. 154-161.

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