Differential components of sentence comprehension: Beyond single word reading and memory

Cutting, Laurie E.; Clements, A.M.; Courtney, Susan; Rimrodt, Sheryl L.; Schafer, J.G.B.; Bisesi, J.; Pekar, James J.; Pugh, Kenneth R.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2005.07.057

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“…This region was close to the brain region observed in www.intechopen.com Hashimoto and Sakai (2002). Contrastively, the left posterior part of the temporal region was specifically active for sentence reading independent of phonological short term memory (Cutting et al, 2006). However, it is unfortunate that only the sentence comprehension condition included verbs in this study and the phonological short term memory condition did not.…”

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“…The comprehension of verbs has been reported to activate the left posterior superior/middle temporal gyrus Yokoyama et al, 2006b). Therefore, the comprehension of verbs would cause brain activation in the left posterior temporal region in the sentence comprehension condition in Cutting et al (2006). Makuuchi et al (2009) has reported that the pars opercularis of the inferior frontal gyrus is specifically active for syntactic computation regardless of syntactic difficulty.…”

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Neuro-Anatomical Overlap Between Language and Memory Functions in the Human Brain

Yokoyama¹

2012

Neuroimaging - Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

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Neuro-Anatomical Overlap Between Language and Memory Functions in the Human Brain

Yokoyama¹

2012

Neuroimaging - Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

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“…The superior parietal lobule has been linked to a number of cognitive processes, including verbal short-term memory (Clark & Wagner, 2003;Cutting et al, 2006;Davachi, Marril, & Wagner, 2001;Honey, Bullmore, & Sharma, 2000), attentional control, cross-modal integration (Collette et al, 2005;Saito et al, 2005;Shomstein & Yantis, 2004, and mental imagery during reading (Just, Newman, Keller, McEleney, & Carpenter, 2004). While we cannot ascertain the precise function of this region in sentence reading on the basis of the present study, higher activation among poor readers following remediation could reflect improvement in one or more of the above processes.…”

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Modifying the brain activation of poor readers during sentence comprehension with extended remedial instruction: A longitudinal study of neuroplasticity

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a b s t r a c tThis study used fMRI to longitudinally assess the impact of intensive remedial instruction on cortical activation among 5th grade poor readers during a sentence comprehension task. The children were tested at three time points: prior to remediation, after 100 h of intensive instruction, and 1 year after the instruction had ended. Changes in brain activation were also measured among 5th grade good readers at the same time points for comparison. The central finding was that prior to instruction, the poor readers had significantly less activation than good readers bilaterally in the parietal cortex. Immediately after instruction, poor readers made substantial gains in reading ability, and demonstrated significantly increased activation in the left angular gyrus and the left superior parietal lobule. Activation in these regions continued to increase among poor readers 1 year post-remediation, resulting in a normalization of the activation. These results are interpreted as reflecting changes in the processes involved in word-level and sentencelevel assembly. Areas of overactivation were also found among poor readers in the medial frontal cortex, possibly indicating a more effortful and attentionally guided reading strategy.

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“…For example, it has been suggested that a more specific function of the posterior MTG is in processing phrase-level meaning [Cutting et al, 2006;Grossman et al, 2002;Vigneau et al, 2006] and integration of lexico-syntactic information [see Grodzinsky and Friederici, 2006]. In this vein, syntactic manipulations not only affect syntactic processing but also semantic level processing that explains the involvement of Wernicke's area.…”

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The effect of presentation paradigm on syntactic processing: An event‐related fMRI study

Lee¹,

Newman²

2009

Human Brain Mapping

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An event-related fMRI study was conducted to investigate the effect of two different sentence presentation paradigms-rapid serial visual presentation (RSVP) and whole sentence presentation-on syntactic processing. During scanning, sentences were presented using one of the two presentation paradigms and were followed by a short delay and a probe to verify sentence comprehension. The delay was included in an attempt to separate sentence-related activity from probe-related activity. The behavioral data showed a main effect of syntactic complexity for reaction time and accuracy, and accuracy revealed an interaction between complexity and the presentation paradigm employed-RSVP produced many more errors for syntactically complex sentences than did whole sentence presentation. The imaging data revealed a syntactic complexity effect during the sentence phase in left BA 44 and during the probe phase in left BA 44 and the left posterior MTG. In addition, timecourse analysis revealed that these two regions also showed an interaction between complexity and presentation paradigm such that there was no complexity effect during RSVP but a significant effect during whole sentence presentation. In addition to finding that these two presentation paradigms differentially affected syntactic processing, there were main effects within the visual pathway (V1/V2 vs. V5) and the hippocampus that revealed significant differences in activation between the paradigms.

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Differential components of sentence comprehension: Beyond single word reading and memory

Cited by 43 publications

References 50 publications

Neuro-Anatomical Overlap Between Language and Memory Functions in the Human Brain

Neuro-Anatomical Overlap Between Language and Memory Functions in the Human Brain

Modifying the brain activation of poor readers during sentence comprehension with extended remedial instruction: A longitudinal study of neuroplasticity

The effect of presentation paradigm on syntactic processing: An event‐related fMRI study

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