کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
924269 1473985 2014 6 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Does degree of handedness in a group of right-handed individuals affect language comprehension?
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
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موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب شناختی
چکیده انگلیسی


• Degree of handedness (DH) was shown to affect the strategy used during sentence comprehension.
• fMRI activation differences as a function of DH were found in semantic and episodic memory regions.
• The impact of DH was modulated by syntactic processing load.

The impact of handedness on language processing has been studied extensively and the results indicate that there is a relationship between the two variables; however, the nature of the relationship is not at all clear. In the current study we explored degree of handedness (DH) opposed to direction in a group of right-handed individuals. fMRI was used to explore the impact of DH on the sentence comprehension network. The results revealed that during sentence comprehension activation in regions linked to semantic memory (e.g., anterior temporal cortex) were modulated by DH. Also, unexpectedly the precuneus/posterior cingulate gyrus which has been linked to episodic memory was also affected by DH. These results extend those reported previously by showing that the neural architecture that supports sentence comprehension is modulated by DH. More specifically, together the results presented here support the hypothesis proposed by Townsend, Carrithers, and Bever (2001) that DH interacts with the language system and impacts the strategy used during sentence comprehension.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Brain and Cognition - Volume 86, April 2014, Pages 98–103
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