title: Brain correlates of sentence translation in Finnish-Norwegian bilinguals.
abstract: We measured brain activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while Finnish-Norwegian bilinguals silently translated sentences from Finnish into Norwegian and decided whether a later presented probe sentence was a correct translation of the original sentence. The control task included silent sentence reading and probe sentence decision within a single language, Finnish. The translation minus control task contrast activated the left inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann's area 47) and the left basal ganglia. The left inferior frontal activation appears to be related to active semantic retrieval and the basal ganglia activation to a general action control function that works by suppressing competing responses.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. minlehto@abo.fi
authors.forename: Minna H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Lehtonen
authors.forename: Matti
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Laine
authors.forename: Jussi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Niemi
authors.forename: Tormod
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Thomsen
authors.forename: Victor A
authors.initials: VA
authors.lastname: Vorobyev
authors.forename: Kenneth
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hugdahl
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001479:Basal Ganglia / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009044:Motor Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D019303:Multilingualism; D009664:Norway; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D014177:Translations