Is Broca's area involved in the processing of passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study.

@article{citeulike:1142165, abstract = {We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate whether activation in Broca's area is greater during the processing of passive versus active sentences in the brains of healthy subjects. Twenty Japanese native speakers performed a visual sentence comprehension task in which they were asked to read a visually presented sentence and to identify the agent or the patient in the sentence by pressing a button. We found that the processing of passive sentences elicited no greater activation than that of active sentences in Broca's area. However, passive sentences elicited greater activation than active sentences in the left frontal operculum and the inferior parietal lobule. Thus, our neuroimaging results suggest that deficits in the comprehension of passive sentences in Japanese aphasics are induced not by lesions to Broca's area, but to the left frontal operculum and/or the inferior parietal lobule.}, address = {Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8576, Japan; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, IDAC, Tohoku University, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8574, Japan; New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, 6-6-10, Aoba, Aza, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8579, Japan.}, author = {Yokoyama, Satoru and Watanabe, Jobu and Iwata, Kazuki and Ikuta, Naho and Haji, Tomoki and Usui, Nobuo and Taira, Masato and Miyamoto, Tadao and Nakamura, Wataru and Sato, Shigeru and Horie, Kaoru and Kawashima, Ryuta }, citeulike-article-id = {1142165}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.003}, issn = {0028-3932}, journal = {Neuropsychologia}, keywords = {activepassive}, number = {5}, pages = {989--996}, posted-at = {2007-07-20 18:49:01}, priority = {4}, title = {Is Broca's area involved in the processing of passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.003}, volume = {45}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:1142165 L3 - citeulike-article-id:1142165 TI - Is Broca's area involved in the processing of passive sentences? An event-related fMRI study. JF - Neuropsychologia VL - 45 IS - 5 SP - 989 EP - 996 AD - Graduate School of International Cultural Studies, Tohoku University, Kawauchi, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8576, Japan; Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, IDAC, Tohoku University, Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8574, Japan; New Industry Creation Hatchery Center, Tohoku University, 6-6-10, Aoba, Aza, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi-ken 980-8579, Japan. SN - 0028-3932 N2 - We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate whether activation in Broca's area is greater during the processing of passive versus active sentences in the brains of healthy subjects. Twenty Japanese native speakers performed a visual sentence comprehension task in which they were asked to read a visually presented sentence and to identify the agent or the patient in the sentence by pressing a button. We found that the processing of passive sentences elicited no greater activation than that of active sentences in Broca's area. However, passive sentences elicited greater activation than active sentences in the left frontal operculum and the inferior parietal lobule. Thus, our neuroimaging results suggest that deficits in the comprehension of passive sentences in Japanese aphasics are induced not by lesions to Broca's area, but to the left frontal operculum and/or the inferior parietal lobule. KW - activepassive AU - Yokoyama, Satoru AU - Watanabe, Jobu AU - Iwata, Kazuki AU - Ikuta, Naho AU - Haji, Tomoki AU - Usui, Nobuo AU - Taira, Masato AU - Miyamoto, Tadao AU - Nakamura, Wataru AU - Sato, Shigeru AU - Horie, Kaoru AU - Kawashima, Ryuta PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.09.003 ER -