The Relationship Between Syntactic Production and Comprehension

The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198786825.013.20 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 481-505

Author(s):

Peter Indefrey

Keyword(s):

Sentence Processing ◽

Language Production ◽

Semantic Processing ◽

Temporal Cortex ◽

Brain Structures ◽

Sentence Production ◽

Current Evidence ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Functional Components

This chapter deals with the question of whether there is one syntactic system that is shared by language production and comprehension or whether there are two separate systems. It first discusses arguments in favor of one or the other option and then presents the current evidence on the brain structures involved in sentence processing. The results of meta-analyses of numerous neuroimaging studies suggest that there is one system consisting of functionally distinct cortical regions: the dorsal part of Broca’s area subserving compositional syntactic processing; the ventral part of Broca’s area subserving compositional semantic processing; and the left posterior temporal cortex (Wernicke’s area) subserving the retrieval of lexical syntactic and semantic information. Sentence production, the comprehension of simple and complex sentences, and the parsing of sentences containing grammatical violations differ with respect to the recruitment of these functional components.

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The temporal cortex

Brain Computations ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198871101.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 253-259

Author(s):

Edmund T. Rolls

Keyword(s):

Temporal Lobe ◽

Language Production ◽

Inferior Frontal Gyrus ◽

Temporal Cortex ◽

Visual Object ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Semantic Representations ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Anterior Temporal Lobe ◽

Face Expression

The inferior and middle temporal gyri are involved visual object recognition, with the more dorsal areas involved in face expression, gesture, and motion representation that is useful in social behaviour. The superior temporal cortex is involved in auditory processing. The anterior temporal lobe is involved in semantic representations, for example information about objects, people, and places. Network mechanisms involved in semantic representations are described. The output of this system reaches the inferior frontal gyrus, which on the left is Broca’s area, involved in language production. The concept that the semantics for language are computed in the anterior temporal lobe, and communicates with Broca’s area for speech production, is introduced.

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Differential roles of right temporal cortex and broca's area in pitch processing: Evidence from music and mandarin

Human Brain Mapping ◽

10.1002/hbm.22046 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 34 (9) ◽

pp. 2045-2054 ◽

Cited By ~ 25

Author(s):

Yun Nan ◽

Angela D. Friederici

Keyword(s):

Temporal Cortex ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Pitch Processing

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ISLAMIC VALUES ENCOUNTERED IN HUMAN LANGUAGE PRODUCTION AND COMPREHENSION AS A MENTAL PROCESS

JURNAL SCHEMATA Pascasarjana UIN Mataram ◽

10.20414/schemata.v7i2.517 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 172-185

Author(s):

Nurlaila Nurlaila

Keyword(s):

Language Production ◽

Angular Gyrus ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Mental Process ◽

Human Language ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Left Brain ◽

The Earth ◽

The Brain ◽

Islamic Values

This study concerned mainly on the islamic values encountered in human language production and comprehension as a mental process. The production of language of human being positioned in Broca’s area and comprehension of language is located in Wernike’s area which are located in human left brain. The process of language in human brain is very abstract; it could not be directly seen by naked eyes. It was done by activating some features of the brain such as Broca’s area, Wernike’s area, angular gyrus, motor cortex, etc. Based on psycholinguistics theory, ability to speak or produce meaningful sounds were innate in human. Its meant that human were genetically predisposed to learn and use language. The phenomenon were closely related to islamics values that those facts specifically and delibrately created by God; the Almighty Allah with certain purposes and that regularity was shown in the nature of thing in the earth. This research aims at investigating the islamic values encountered in human language production and comprehension. This is a descriptive qualitative reasearch that the researcher herself functioned as the key instrument. It was found out that there were several kinds of islamic values found in human language production and comprehension namely social, moral, economical, and religious values. Key Words: Islamic Value, Language Production and Comprehension, Mental Process

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Co-localization of Stroop and Syntactic Ambiguity Resolution in Broca's Area: Implications for the Neural Basis of Sentence Processing

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience ◽

10.1162/jocn.2008.21179 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 21 (12) ◽

pp. 2434-2444 ◽

Cited By ~ 131

Author(s):

David January ◽

John C. Trueswell ◽

Sharon L. Thompson-Schill

Keyword(s):

Prefrontal Cortex ◽

Cognitive Control ◽

Language Processing ◽

Sentence Processing ◽

Sentence Comprehension ◽

Syntactic Ambiguity ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Neural Basis ◽

Control Processes

For over a century, a link between left prefrontal cortex and language processing has been accepted, yet the precise characterization of this link remains elusive. Recent advances in both the study of sentence processing and the neuroscientific study of frontal lobe function suggest an intriguing possibility: The demands to resolve competition between incompatible characterizations of a linguistic stimulus may recruit top–down cognitive control processes mediated by prefrontal cortex. We use functional magnetic resonance imaging to test the hypothesis that individuals use shared prefrontal neural circuitry during two very different tasks—color identification under Stroop conflict and sentence comprehension under conditions of syntactic ambiguity—both of which putatively rely on cognitive control processes. We report the first demonstration of within-subject overlap in neural responses to syntactic and nonsyntactic conflict. These findings serve to clarify the role of Broca's area in, and the neural and psychological organization of, the language processing system.

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The neurobiology of agrammatic sentence comprehension: a lesion study

10.1101/192245 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Corianne Rogalsky ◽

Arianna N. LaCroix ◽

Kuan-Hua Chen ◽

Steven W. Anderson ◽

Hanna Damasio ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Temporal Lobe ◽

Sentence Processing ◽

Word Order ◽

Sentence Comprehension ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

Matching Task ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Cognitive Demands ◽

Lesion Symptom Mapping

AbstractBroca’s area has long been implicated in sentence comprehension. Damage to this region is thought to be the central source of “agrammatic comprehension” in which performance is substantially worse (and near chance) on sentences with noncanonical word orders compared to canonical word order sentences (in English). This claim is supported by functional neuroimaging studies demonstrating greater activation in Broca’s area for noncanonical versus canonical sentences. However, functional neuroimaging studies also have frequently implicated the anterior temporal lobe (ATL) in sentence processing more broadly, and recent lesion-symptom mapping studies have implicated the ATL and mid temporal regions in agrammatic comprehension. The present study investigates these seemingly conflicting findings in 66 left hemisphere patients with chronic focal cerebral damage. Patients completed two sentence comprehension measures, sentence-picture matching and plausibility judgments. Patients with damage including Broca’s area (but excluding the temporal lobe; n=11) on average did not exhibit the expected agrammatic comprehension pattern, e.g. their performance was > 80% on noncanonical sentences in the sentence-picture matching task. Patients with ATL damage (n=18) also did not exhibit an agrammatic comprehension pattern. Across our entire patient sample, the lesions of patients with agrammatic comprehension patterns in either task had maximal overlap in posterior superior temporal and inferior parietal regions. Using voxel-based lesion symptom mapping (VLSM), we find that lower performances on canonical and noncanonical sentences in each task are both associated with damage to a large left superior temporal-inferior parietal network including portions of the ATL, but not Broca’s area. Notably however, response bias in plausibility judgments was significantly associated with damage to inferior frontal cortex, including gray and white matter in Broca’s area, suggesting that the contribution of Broca’s area to sentence comprehension may be related to task-related cognitive demands.

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SURG-19. REORGANIZATION OF LANGUAGE ENABLES SAFE RESECTION OF TUMORS IN AND AROUND BROCA’S AREA

Neuro-Oncology ◽

10.1093/neuonc/noz175.1019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (Supplement_6) ◽

pp. vi243-vi243

Author(s):

Emma Holmes ◽

Keith Kerr ◽

Cihan Kadipasaoglu ◽

Nitin Tandon

Keyword(s):

Language Production ◽

Senior Author ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Language Mapping ◽

Pathological Evaluation ◽

Pars Opercularis ◽

Grade 3 ◽

Slow Growing

Abstract INTRODUCTION Since its discovery in the 1800s, Broca’s area has been viewed as a critical node for language production. Previously, pathologies in this area have been considered unresectable due to concern for producing iatrogenic language production deficits. Emerging literature suggests that although acute lesions in this area can cause widespread deficits, slow growing lesions are less correlated with these deficits due to cortical language reorganization. Based on this data, we managed a cohort with Broca’s area lesions with surgical resection using awake intra-operative language mapping. METHODS All 150 awake craniotomies performed by the senior author over a twelve-year period (2006–2017) at a single institution were reviewed. For each patient the imaging was carefully evaluated to localize the neoplasm relative to pars triangularis or pars opercularis in the language dominant hemisphere. Language dominance was confirmed using WADA testing or fMRI. All patients underwent cortical language mapping using a battery of tasks coupled with cortical stimulation. RESULTS A total of 31 surgeries in 29 patients (65.5% male, 86.2% righthanded) were identified. The average age was 41. Patients presented with seizures (64.5%), speech difficulties (35.5%) or headaches (19.4%). A gross or near total resection was achieved in 26/29 (89.7%) of patients. Pathological evaluation revealed grade 2 gliomas (8), grade 3 gliomas (13) and glioblastoma (9). Post-operatively, 8 (25.8%) patients had new or worsening speech deficits, all of which resolved to baseline at follow-up. CONCLUSION Broca’s area lesions can be safely resected in patients using an awake craniotomy technique with language mapping. In our series, the majority of patients had gross or near total resections, few patients had new deficits, and none had permanent new deficits. Considering the increasing evidence in favor of cytoreduction to manage glial neoplasms, this technique should be employed routinely for pathologies in this area to optimize patient outcomes.

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Neural substrates of syntactic mapping treatment: An fMRI study of two cases

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society ◽

10.1017/s135561770606019x ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 132-146 ◽

Cited By ~ 26

Author(s):

CHRISTINA E. WIERENGA ◽

LYNN M. MAHER ◽

ANNA BACON MOORE ◽

KEITH D. WHITE ◽

KEITH MCGREGOR ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Magnetic Resonance Imaging ◽

Neural Substrates ◽

Sentence Production ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Functional Magnetic Resonance ◽

Resonance Imaging ◽

Sentence Generation ◽

Nonfluent Aphasia ◽

Fmri Study

Two patients (G01, J02) with chronic nonfluent aphasia and sentence production deficits received syntactic mapping treatment to improve sentence production. The patients had dramatically different outcomes in that improved syntax production generalized to nontreatment tasks for G01, but not for JO2. To learn how treatment influenced the neural substrates for syntax production, both patients underwent pre- and posttreatment functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of sentence generation. G01 showed more robust activity posttreatment than pretreatment in Broca's area; ventral temporal activity decreased slightly from pre- to posttreatment. Comparison of J02's pretreatment and posttreatment images revealed little change, although activity was more diffuse pre- than posttreatment. Findings suggest that for G01, rehabilitation led to engagement of an area (Broca's area) used minimally during the pretreatment scan, whereas for J02, rehabilitation may have led to more efficient use of areas already involved in sentence generation during the pretreatment scan. fMRI findings are discussed in the context of sentence-production outcome and generalization. (JINS, 2006, 12, 132–146.)

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Quantitative Analysis of Agrammatism in Agrammatic Primary Progressive Aphasia and Dominant Apraxia of Speech

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2018_jslhr-l-17-0474 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 61 (9) ◽

pp. 2337-2346 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Katerina A. Tetzloff ◽

Rene L. Utianski ◽

Joseph R. Duffy ◽

Heather M. Clark ◽

Edythe A. Strand ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Language Production ◽

Primary Progressive Aphasia ◽

Broca’S Area ◽

Apraxia Of Speech ◽

Broca's Area ◽

Progressive Aphasia ◽

Primary Progressive ◽

Semantic Errors ◽

Description Task ◽

Mean Length Of Utterance

Purpose The aims of the study were to assess and compare grammatical deficits in written and spoken language production in subjects with agrammatic primary progressive aphasia (agPPA) and in subjects with agrammatism in the context of dominant apraxia of speech (DAOS) and to investigate neuroanatomical correlates. Method Eight agPPA and 21 DAOS subjects performed the picture description task of the Western Aphasia Battery (WAB) both in writing and orally. Responses were transcribed and coded for linguistic analysis. agPPA and DAOS were compared to 13 subjects with primary progressive apraxia of speech (PPAOS) who did not have agrammatism. Spearman correlations were performed between the written and spoken variables. Patterns of atrophy in each group were compared, and relationships between the different linguistic measures and integrity of Broca's area were assessed. Results agPPA and DAOS both showed lower mean length of utterance, fewer grammatical utterances, more nonutterances, more syntactic and semantic errors, and fewer complex utterances than PPAOS in writing and speech, as well as fewer correct verbs and nouns in speech. Only verb ratio and proportion of grammatical utterances correlated between modalities. agPPA and DAOS both showed greater involvement of Broca's area than PPAOS, and atrophy of Broca's area correlated with proportion of grammatical and ungrammatical utterances and semantic errors in writing and speech. Conclusions agPPA and DAOS subjects showed similar patterns of agrammatism, although subjects performed differently when speaking versus writing. Integrity of Broca's area correlates with agrammatism.

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