Auditory Language Comprehension: An Event-Related fMRI Study on the Processing of Syntactic and Lexical Information

摘要: The functional specificity of different brain areas recruited in auditory language processing was investigated by means event-related magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while subjects listened to speech input varying the presence or absence semantic and syntactic information. There were two sentence conditions containing structure, i.e., normal (consisting function content words), words pseudowords), word-list conditions, real pseudowords. language, general, correlates with significant activation primary cortices adjacent compartments superior temporal gyrus bilaterally. Processing appeared have a special status, as no frontal observed this case but seen three other conditions. This difference may point toward certain automaticity linguistic processes used during comprehension. When considering we found that these correlated both left right cortices. An increase planum polare bilaterally deep portion operculum exclusively when focus. Thus, present data be taken suggest an involvement bilateral cortex information