Erratum to “Universal grammar in the frontotemporal dementia spectrum: Evidence of a selective disorder in the corticobasal degeneration syndrome” [Neuropsychologia 45 (2008) 3015–3023]

Cotelli, Maria; Borroni, Barbara; Manenti, Rosa; Ginex, Valeria; Calabria, Marco; Moro, Andrea; Alberici, Antonella; Zanetti, Marina; Zanetti, Orazio; Padovani, Alessandro

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.06.002

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“…The temporal pole (anterior temporal lobe [ATL]), located within the posteroanterior ventral pathway and connecting to inferior frontal regions (Friederici, ), also has been associated with sentence processing, with studies reporting activation in this region for sentences contrasted with word lists, foreign speech, etc. (Bemis & Pylkkänen, , ; Fedorenko, Nieto‐Castanon, & Kanwisher, ; Humphries, Binder, Medler, & Liebenthal, ; Rogalsky & Hickok, ), although damage to this region by surgical resection or PPA does not impair sentence comprehension (Cotelli et al, ; Gorno‐Tempini et al, ; Grossman, Rhee, & Moore, ; Kho et al, ; Mesulam, Wieneke, Thompson, Rogalski, & Weintraub, ). Rather, current research suggests that the ATL subserves semantic processing (Lambon Ralph, Sage, Jones, & Mayberry, ; Mesulam et al, ; Patterson, Nestor, & Rogers, ; Visser, Jefferies, & Lambon Ralph, ) and facilitates the combination of words into complex semantic representations (Pylkkänen, ; Zaccarella, Schell, & Friederici, ) in line with the idea that this region is crucial for object/entity knowledge and word comprehension ability (Mesulam et al, ; Mesulam et al, ).…”

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Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies

Walenski

Europa

Caplan

et al. 2019

Human Brain Mapping

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Comprehending and producing sentences is a complex endeavor requiring the coordinated activity of multiple brain regions. We examined three issues related to the brain networks underlying sentence comprehension and production in healthy individuals: First, which regions are recruited for sentence comprehension and sentence production? Second, are there differences for auditory sentence comprehension vs. visual sentence comprehension? Third, which regions are specifically recruited for the comprehension of syntactically complex sentences? Results from activation likelihood estimation (ALE) analyses (from 45 studies) implicated a sentence comprehension network occupying bilateral frontal and temporal lobe regions. Regions implicated in production (from 15 studies) overlapped with the set of regions associated with sentence comprehension in the left hemisphere, but did not include inferior frontal cortex, and did not extend to the right hemisphere. Modality differences between auditory and visual sentence comprehension were found principally in the temporal lobes. Results from the analysis of complex syntax (from 37 studies) showed engagement of left inferior frontal and posterior temporal regions, as well as the right insula. The involvement of the right hemisphere in the comprehension of these structures has potentially important implications for language treatment and recovery in individuals with agrammatic aphasia following left hemisphere brain damage.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies

Walenski

Europa

Caplan

et al. 2019

Human Brain Mapping

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“…Relatedly, neuropsychological investigations of patients with damage to the LATL have shown that their sentence comprehension and production remain mostly intact, particularly if semantic demands are kept low (Cotelli et al 2007;Gorno-Tempini et al 2004;Grossman et al 2005;Hodges et al 1992;Kapur et al 1994;Kho et al 2008;Noppeney et al 2005;Wilson et al 2012). Instead, damage to the LATL leads to a disorder called semantic dementia (SD), in which patients suffer a severe, amodal, memory loss for concepts that manifests across a variety of tasks, including picture naming, word-picture matching, delayed-copy picture drawing, and categorization (Gainotti 2006(Gainotti , 2007(Gainotti , 2011Garrard and Carroll 2006;Garrard and Hodges 2000;Hodges et al 1992Hodges et al , 1995Mummery et al 1999Mummery et al , 2000Patterson et al 2006;Snowden et al 1989).…”

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How Does the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe Contribute to Conceptual Combination? Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Westerlund

Pylkkänen

2017

Language, Cognition, and Mind

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Within the cognitive neuroscience of language, the left anterior temporal lobe (LATL) is one of the most consistent loci for semantic effects; yet its precise role in semantic processing remains unclear. Here we focus on a literature showing that the LATL is modulated by semantic composition even in the simplest of cases, suggesting that it has a central role in the construction of complex meaning. We show that while the LATL's combinatory contribution generalizes across several linguistic factors, such as composition type and word order, it is also robustly modulated by conceptual factors such as the specificity of the composing words. These findings suggest that the LATL's role in composition is at the conceptual as opposed to the syntactic or logico-semantic level, making formal semantic theories of composition less obviously useful for guiding future research on the LATL. For an alternative theoretical foundation, this chapter seeks to connect LATL research to psychological models of conceptual combination, which potentially offer a more fruitful space of hypotheses to constrain our understanding of the computations housed in the LATL. We conclude that, though currently available data on the LATL do not rule out relation-based models, they are most consistent with schema-based models of conceptual combination, with the LATL potentially representing the site of concept schema activation and modification. This chapter is a lightly revised version of Chap. 4 in Masha Westerlund's 2015 Ph.D. thesis entitled "Unpacking the neural basis of conceptual combination with MEG" (

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“…In particular, degeneration of inferior frontal cortex has been associated with the non-fluent/agrammatic variant of PPA, in which syntactic deficits are prominent (Gorno-Tempini et al, 2004). Non-fluent PPA patients produce agrammatic speech (Hodges & Patterson, 1996; Thompson et al, 1997; Weintraub et al, 2009), are impaired in comprehending syntactically complex sentences (Hodges & Patterson, 1996; Grossman & Moore, 2005), and are relatively insensitive to grammatical violations (Grossman et al, 2005; Cotelli et al, 2007). Structural imaging studies using voxel-based morphometry have demonstrated associations between left inferior frontal volume loss and both receptive (Amici et al, 2007; Peelle et al, 2008) and expressive (Wilson et al, 2010) syntactic deficits.…”

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Neural Correlates of Syntactic Processing in the Nonfluent Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

Wilson¹,

Dronkers²,

Ogar³

et al. 2010

J. Neurosci.

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The left posterior inferior frontal cortex (IFC) is important for syntactic processing, and has been shown in many functional imaging studies to be differentially recruited for the processing of syntactically complex sentences relative to simpler ones. In the nonfluent variant of primary progressive aphasia (PPA), degeneration of the posterior IFC is associated with expressive and receptive agrammatism; however, the functional status of this region in nonfluent PPA is not well understood. Our objective was to determine whether the atrophic posterior IFC is differentially recruited for the processing of syntactically complex sentences in nonfluent PPA. Using structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, we quantified tissue volumes and functional responses to a syntactic comprehension task in eight patients with nonfluent PPA, compared to healthy age-matched controls. In controls, the posterior IFC showed more activity for syntactically complex sentences than simpler ones, as expected. In nonfluent PPA patients, the posterior IFC was atrophic and, unlike controls, showed an equivalent level of functional activity for syntactically complex and simpler sentences. This abnormal pattern of functional activity was specific to the posterior IFC: the mid-superior temporal sulcus, another region modulated by syntactic complexity in controls, showed normal modulation by complexity in patients. A more anterior inferior frontal region was recruited by patients, but did not support successful syntactic processing. We conclude that in nonfluent PPA, the posterior IFC is not only structurally damaged, but also functionally abnormal, suggesting a critical role for this region in the breakdown of syntactic processing in this syndrome.

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Erratum to “Universal grammar in the frontotemporal dementia spectrum: Evidence of a selective disorder in the corticobasal degeneration syndrome” [Neuropsychologia 45 (2008) 3015–3023]

Cited by 13 publications

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Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies

Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE‐based meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies

How Does the Left Anterior Temporal Lobe Contribute to Conceptual Combination? Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Neural Correlates of Syntactic Processing in the Nonfluent Variant of Primary Progressive Aphasia

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