Abstract
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 |
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Pages (from-to) | 154-161 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Brain and Language |
Volume | 97 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
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