Presentation 2010-10-23
The shift of attention entailed in a shift of grammatical subject : An fMRI study
Toshiki IWABUCHI, Masato OHBA, Toshio INUI, Kenji OGAWA,
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Abstract(in English) In speech or sentence comprehension, a grammatical subject is considered to correspond with the referent, which initially captures attention in a visual scene. In the present study, the visual attention of a participant was guided to a particular referent in a visual scene, and a sentence whose subject was different from the referent was subsequently presented. This allowed investigation of the brain regions involved in the shift of grammatical subject. Two experiments using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) showed activation of the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) under conditions requiring a shift of grammatical subject. This indicates involvement of the right DLPFC in this type of process.
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Keyword(in English) sentence comprehension / grammatical subject / fMRI / right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
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Title (in English) The shift of attention entailed in a shift of grammatical subject : An fMRI study
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Keyword(1) sentence comprehension
Keyword(2) grammatical subject
Keyword(3) fMRI
Keyword(4) right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex
1st Author's Name Toshiki IWABUCHI
1st Author's Affiliation Graduate School of informatics, Kyoto University()
2nd Author's Name Masato OHBA
2nd Author's Affiliation Katayanagi Advanced Research Laboratories, Tokyo University of Technology
3rd Author's Name Toshio INUI
3rd Author's Affiliation Graduate School of informatics, Kyoto University:Asada project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
4th Author's Name Kenji OGAWA
4th Author's Affiliation Asada project, ERATO, Japan Science and Technology Agency
Date 2010-10-23
Paper # TL2010-31,NLC2010-10
Volume (vol) vol.110
Number (no) 245
Page pp.pp.-
#Pages 6
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