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2010
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.20957 in citations.
Left cytoarchitectonic BA 44 processes syntactic gender violations in determiner phrases
Left cytoarchitectonic BA 44 processes syntactic gender violations in determiner phrases
Recent neuroimaging studies make contradictory predictions about the involvement of left Brodmann's area (BA) 44 in processing local syntactic violations in determiner phrases (DPs). Some studies suggest a role for BA 44 in detecting local syntactic violations, whereas others attribute this fun...
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Personal Name(s): | Heim, S. |
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van Ermingen, M. / Huber, W. / Amunts, K. | |
Contributing Institute: |
Strukturelle und funktionelle Organisation des Gehirns; INM-1 JARA-BRAIN; JARA-BRAIN |
Published in: | Human brain mapping, 31 (2010) S. 1532 - 1541 |
Imprint: |
New York, NY
Wiley-Liss
2010
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Physical Description: |
1532 - 1541 |
DOI: |
10.1002/hbm.20957 |
PubMed ID: |
20143384 |
Document Type: |
Journal Article |
Research Program: |
Connectivity and Activity Funktion und Dysfunktion des Nervensystems |
Series Title: |
Human Brain Mapping
31 |
Subject (ZB): | |
Publikationsportal JuSER |
Recent neuroimaging studies make contradictory predictions about the involvement of left Brodmann's area (BA) 44 in processing local syntactic violations in determiner phrases (DPs). Some studies suggest a role for BA 44 in detecting local syntactic violations, whereas others attribute this function to the left premotor cortex. Therefore, the present event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study investigated whether left-cytoarchitectonic BA 44 was activated when German DPs involving syntactic gender violations were compared with correct DPs (correct: 'der Baum'-the[masculine] tree[masculine]; violated: 'das Baum'--the[neuter] tree[masculine]). Grammaticality judgements were made for both visual and auditory DPs to be able to generalize the results across modalities. Grammaticality judgements involved, among others, left BA 44 and left BA 6 in the premotor cortex for visual and auditory stimuli. Most importantly, activation in left BA 44 was consistently higher for violated than for correct DPs. This finding was behaviourally corroborated by longer reaction times for violated versus correct DPs. Additional brain regions, showing the same effect, included left premotor cortex, supplementary motor area, right middle and superior frontal cortex, and left cerebellum. Based on earlier findings from the literature, the results indicate the involvement of left BA 44 in processing local syntactic violations when these include morphological features, whereas left premotor cortex seems crucial for the detection of local word category violations. |