title: Brain activation during the course of sentence comprehension.
abstract: The purpose of this study is to determine, by functional magnetic resonance imaging, how the activated regions of the brain change as a Japanese sentence is presented in a grammatically correct order. In this study, we presented constituents of a sentence to Japanese participants one by one at regular intervals. The results showed that the left lingual gyrus was significantly activated at the beginning of the sentence, then the left inferior frontal gyrus and left supplementary motor area, in the middle of the sentence, and the left inferior temporal gyrus, at the end of the sentence. We suggest that these brain areas are involved in sentence comprehension in this temporal order.
authors.affiliation: LBC Research Center, Tohoku University 21st Century of Excellence Program in Humanities, Sendai, Japan. ikuta@idac.tohoku.ac.jp
authors.forename: Naho
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ikuta
authors.forename: Motoaki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugiura
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sassa
authors.forename: Jobu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Yuko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Akitsuki
authors.forename: Kazuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Iwata
authors.forename: Naoki
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Shigeru
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Kaoru
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Horie
authors.forename: Yoshihiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsue
authors.forename: Ryuta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kawashima
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009778:Occipital Lobe / Q000502:physiology; D013702:Temporal Lobe / Q000502:physiology