Is Broca's area involved in the processing of passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study

Yokoyama, Satoru; Watanabe, Jobu; Iwata, Kazunori; Ikuta, Naho; Haji, Tomoki; Usui, Nobuo; Taira, Masato; Miyamoto, Tadao; Nakamura, Wataru; Sato, Shigeru; Horie, Kazuyuki; Kawashima, Ryuta

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.003

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“…Moreover, left IFG, pSTG and MTG showed greater activation under the PS condition as compared to the AS condition. Our current IFG activation finding is consistent with the previous fMRI findings related to active and passive sentences (Hirotani et al, 2011;Mack et al, 2013;Yokoyama et al, 2006Yokoyama et al, , 2007. While many of the previous studies did not find activation of the pSTG during processing of passive sentences, others have found activation of the pSTG in studies focusing on syntactic processing (BenShachar et al, 2004;Bornkessel et al, 2005;Friederici & Kotz, 2003;Humphries et al, 2006;Kinno et al, 2008;Rogalsky & Hickok, 2009).…”

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“…This is consistent with other fMRI studies showing no behavioral performance differences between active versus passive sentences, which is indicative that there was no difference in task difficulty between the conditions (Kinno et al, 2008;Yokoyama et al, 2007).…”

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“…We previously mentioned Grodzinsky's trace hypothesis in explaining the difficulties in passive sentence processing. This hypothesis has been supported by recent fMRI studies (Hirotani et al, 2011;Mack et al, 2013;Yokoyama et al, 2006Yokoyama et al, , 2007. The present fMRI study showed activation of both the left IFG and temporal regions during passive sentence processing.…”

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“…However, whether active and passive sentences require additional processing demand is still a matter of debate. To address this, several neuroimaging studies have used fMRI to explore active and passive sentence processing (Hirotani et al, 2011;Mack et al, 2013;Yokoyama et al, 2006Yokoyama et al, , 2007.…”

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“…In contrast, activation of these areas was not seen during active sentence processing in L1. Further studies have focused on the function of Broca's area in passive sentence processing (Yokoyama et al, 2007). Twenty Japanese adults were asked to listen to passive and active sentences and distinguish which word was the agent or patient.…”

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Differences in grammatical processing strategies for active and passive sentences: An fMRI study

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Journal of Neurolinguistics

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a b s t r a c tMany studies have used a neuroscience-based approach towards examination of writing and reading skills and how these might differ between languages. However, few studies have focused on differences in grammatical processing that may be specific to certain languages. Studies have shown that grammar for active and passive sentences differs between Chinese and English. Chinese, a morphologically non-inflectional language, is visibly different from inflectional languages in terms of verb morphology changes but similar in terms of subject and object transformation movements. We used a blocked design functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study to examine brain activations during processing of three types of Chinese sentences: active sentences, passive sentences, and general declarative sentences in native Chinese speakers. We found similar brain activations for picture-active, picture-passive, and declarative sentences. However, differences in neural activation in the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and posterior superior temporal gyrus (pSTG) were observed between active and passive conditions. Since the Chinese language does not require inflection of verbs when switching from active to passive sentences, it is possible that subject and object inversion led to the

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Section: The Left Frontal Lobesupporting

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Differences in grammatical processing strategies for active and passive sentences: An fMRI study

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Neural differences in processing of case particles in Japanese: an fMRI study

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IntroductionIn subject–object–verb (SOV) languages, such as Japanese, sentence processing proceeds incrementally to the late presentation of the head (verb). Japanese case particles play a crucial role in sentence processing; however, little is known about how these particles are processed. In particular, it is still unclear how the functional difference between case particles is represented in the human brain.MethodsIn this study, we conducted an fMRI experiment using an event-related design to directly compare brain activity during Japanese case particle processing among the nominative case ga, accusative case o, and dative case ni. Twenty five native Japanese speakers were asked to judge whether the presented character was a particle in a particle judgment task and whether the character ended with a specific vowel in a phonological judgment task, which was used as a control condition.ResultsA particle comparison demonstrated that the processing of ni was associated with significantly weaker brain activity than that of ga and o in the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) and the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG). Significantly greater brain activity associated with ni relative to ga in the right IFG was also observed.ConclusionThese results suggest that the Japanese case particles ga, ni, and o are represented differently in the brain.

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

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et al. 2019

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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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Is Broca's area involved in the processing of passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study

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Differences in grammatical processing strategies for active and passive sentences: An fMRI study

Differences in grammatical processing strategies for active and passive sentences: An fMRI study

Neural differences in processing of case particles in Japanese: an fMRI study

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

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