Specialization in the left prefrontal cortex for sentence comprehension

R Hashimoto, KL Sakai - Neuron, 2002 - cell.com
Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we examined cortical activation under
syntactic decision tasks and a short-term memory task for sentences, focusing on essential …

Sentence processing is uniquely human

KL Sakai, F Homae, R Hashimoto - Neuroscience Research, 2003 - Elsevier
In this article, we will focus on three fundamental issues concerning language processing in
the human brain, and update recent advances made by functional neuroimaging and …

The role of the posterior superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension

AD Friederici, M Makuuchi, J Bahlmann - Neuroreport, 2009 - journals.lww.com
The study investigates to what extent the posterior superior temporal cortex is involved in
processing complex sentences. Using functional MRI, we show that hierarchically structured …

From perception to sentence comprehension: the convergence of auditory and visual information of language in the left inferior frontal cortex

F Homae, R Hashimoto, K Nakajima, Y Miyashita… - Neuroimage, 2002 - Elsevier
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize cortical activation
associated with sentence processing, thereby elucidating where in the brain auditory and …

Form and content: dissociating syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension

M Dapretto, SY Bookheimer - Neuron, 1999 - cell.com
The distinction between syntax (sentence form) and semantics (sentence meaning) is
fundamental to our thinking about language. Whether and where this distinction is …

The neural bases of sentence comprehension: a fMRI examination of syntactic and lexical processing

TA Keller, PA Carpenter, MA Just - Cerebral cortex, 2001 - academic.oup.com
One of the challenges to functional neuroimaging is to understand how the component
processes of reading comprehension emerge from the neural activity in a network of brain …

Functional segregation of the inferior frontal gyrus for syntactic processes: A functional magnetic-resonance imaging study

Y Uchiyama, H Toyoda, M Honda, H Yoshida… - Neuroscience …, 2008 - Elsevier
We used functional magnetic resonance imaging in 18 normal volunteers to determine
whether there is separate representation of syntactic, semantic, and verbal working memory …

Neural basis for sentence comprehension: Grammatical and short‐term memory components

A Cooke, EB Zurif, C DeVita, D Alsop… - Human brain …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
We monitored regional cerebral activity with BOLD fMRI while subjects were presented
written sentences differing in their grammatical structure (subject‐relative or object‐relative …

Neural correlates of noncanonical syntactic processing revealed by a picture‐sentence matching task

R Kinno, M Kawamura, S Shioda… - Human brain …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
It remains controversial whether the left inferior frontal gyrus subserves syntactic processing
or short‐term memory demands. Here we devised a novel picture‐sentence matching task …

Retrieval and unification of syntactic structure in sentence comprehension: an fMRI study using word-category ambiguity

TM Snijders, T Vosse, G Kempen… - Cerebral …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Sentence comprehension requires the retrieval of single word information from long-term
memory, and the integration of this information into multiword representations. The current …