Word co-occurrence effects driving language cortex during listening to a narrative

Wallentin, Mikkel; Vuust, Peter; Mouridsen, Kim; Dohn, Anders; Nielsen, A.G.; Roepstorff, Andreas; Lund, TE

doi:10.1016/s1053-8119(09)71758-6

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“…To model word co-occurrence effects (Wallentin et al, 2009a;Wallentin et al, 2009b), we made onset regressors for all distinct words, convolved with the standard HRF. These regressors were then subjected to a principal component analysis and the 10 first components from this procedure were added to the set of regressors.…”

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Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

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Emotions are often understood in relation to conditioned responses. Narrative emotions, however, cannot be reduced to a simple associative relationship between emotion words and their experienced counterparts. Intensity in stories may arise without any overt emotion depicting words and vice versa. In this fMRI study we investigated BOLD responses to naturally fluctuating emotions evoked by listening to a story. The emotional intensity profile of the text was found through a rating study. The validity of this profile was supported by heart rate variability (HRV) data showing a significant correspondence across participants between intensity ratings and HRV measurements obtained during fMRI. With this ecologically valid stimulus we found that narrative intensity was accompanied by activation in temporal cortices, medial geniculate nuclei in the thalamus and amygdala, brain regions that are all part of the system for processing conditioned emotional responses to auditory stimuli. These findings suggest that this system also underpins narrative emotions in spite of their complex nature. Traditional language regions and premotor cortices were also activated during intense parts of the story whereas orbitofrontal cortex was found linked to emotion with positive valence, regardless of level of intensity.

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Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

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“…Interestingly, emotion words (e.g., "happy", "sad") or words with emotional valence (e.g., "dentist's drill") [220,221,222], metaphors [223], idioms [224], 945 proverbs [225], irony [224], literary texts [226], and perhaps even grammatical constructions (e.g. structures of poems and other literary texts, unexpected structures in literary texts) [227], can be antecedents for emotions, e.g.…”

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The quartet theory of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model

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BOLD response to motion verbs in left posterior middle temporal gyrus during story comprehension

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A primary focus within neuroimaging research on language comprehension is on the distribution of semantic knowledge in the brain. Studies have shown that the left posterior middle temporal gyrus (LPMT), a region just anterior to area MT/V5, is important for the processing of complex action knowledge. It has also been found that motion verbs cause activation in LPMT. In this experiment we investigated whether this effect could be replicated in a setting resembling real life language comprehension, i.e. without any overt behavioral task during passive listening to a story. During fMRI participants listened to a recording of the story "The Ugly Duckling". We incorporated a nuisance elimination regression approach for factoring out known nuisance variables both in terms of physiological noise, sound intensity, linguistic variables and emotional content. Compared to the remaining text, clauses containing motion verbs were accompanied by a robust activation of LPMT with no other significant effects, consistent with the hypothesis that this brain region is important for processing motion knowledge, even during naturalistic language comprehension conditions.

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Word co-occurrence effects driving language cortex during listening to a narrative

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Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

Amygdala and heart rate variability responses from listening to emotionally intense parts of a story

The quartet theory of human emotions: An integrative and neurofunctional model

BOLD response to motion verbs in left posterior middle temporal gyrus during story comprehension

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