Localization of early syntactic processes in frontal and temporal cortical areas: A magnetoencephalographic study

Human Brain Mapping

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 1-11

  Friederici, Angela D ^a   Wang, Yunhua ^a   Herrmann, Christoph S ^a   Maess, Burkhard ^a   Oertel, Ulrich ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dipole source localization; ELAN; ERP ERF; Language comprehension; MEG; Syntactic parsing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMANS; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TEMPORAL LOBE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0033864434     PISSN: 10659471     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1097-0193(200009)11:1<1::AID-HBM10>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Bavelier D, Corina D, Jezzard P, Padmanabhan S, Clark VP, Karni A, Prinster A, Braun A, Lalwani A, Rauschecker JP, Turner R, Neville H (1997): Sentence reading: a functional MRI study at 4 Tesla. J Cog Neurosci 9:664-686.
2. Binder JR, Rao SM, Tammeke TA (1994): Functional MRI of human auditory cortex. Ann Neurol 35:662-672.
3. Broca P (1861): Remarques sur le siége de la faculté du langage articulé, suivies d'une observation d'aphémie (parte de la parole). Bull Soc Anat Paris 6:330-357.
4. Bryden MP (1979): Evidence for sex-related differences in cerebral organization. In: Wittig M, Petersen AC, editors. Sex-related differences in cognitive functioning: developmental issues. New York: Academic Press.
5. Caplan D (1992): Language: structure, processing and disorders. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
6. Caplan D, Alpert N, Waters G, Olivieri A (2000): Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing under conditions of concurrent articulation. Human Brain Mapp 9:65-71.
7. Carr BM (1969): Ear effect variables and order of report in dichotic listening. Cortex 5:63-68.
8. Chwilla DJ, Brown C, Hagoort, P (1995): The N400 as a function of the level of processing. Psychophysiology 32:274-285.
9. Coulson S, King J, Kutas M (1998): Expect the unexpected: event-related brain responses of morphosyntactic violations. Lang Cog Proc 13:21-58.
10. Dapretto M, Bookheimer SY (1999): Form and content: dissociating syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension. Neuron 24: 427-432.
11. Démonet JF, Chollet F, Ramsay S, Cardebat D, Nespoulous JL, Wise R, Rascol A, Frackowiak RSJ (1992): The anatomy of phonological and semantic processing in normal subjects. Brain 115:1753-1768.
12. Dronkers NE, Redfern BB, Ludy CA (1995): Lesion localization in chronic Wernicke's aphasia. Brain Lang 51:62-65.
13. Frazier L (1987): Sentence processing: a tutorial view. In: Coltheart M, editor. Attention and performance XII: the psychology of reading. London: Lawrence Erlbaum.
14. Freeman W (1975): Action in the nervous system. New York: Academic Press.
15. Friederici AD (1995): The time course of syntactic activation during language processing: a model based on neuropsychological and neurophysiological data. Brain Lang 50:259-284.
16. Friederici AD, Pfeifer E, Hahne A (1993): Event-related brain potentials during natural speech processing: effects of semantic morphological and syntactic violations. Cog Brain Res 1:183-192.
17. Friederici AD, Mecklinger A, Hahne A (1996): The temporal structure of syntactic parsing: early and late event-related brain potential effects elicited by syntactic anomalies. J Exp Psych: Learn Mem Cog 22:1219-1248.
18. Friederici AD, Hahne A, von Cramon DY (1998): First-pass versus second-pass parsing processes in a Wernicke's and a Broca's aphasie: electro-physiological evidence for a double dissociation. Brain Lang 62:311-341.
19. Friederici AD, von Cramon DY, Kotz SA (1999): Language related brain potentials in patients with cortical and subcortical left hemisphere lesions. Brain 122:1033-1047.
20. Friederici AD, Meyer M, von Cramon DY (in press): Auditory language comprehension: an event-related fMRI study on the processing of syntactic and lexical information. Brain Lang.
21. Frost JA, Binder JR, Springer JA, Hammeke TA, Bellgowan PSF, Rao SM, Cox RW (1999): Language processing is strongly left lateralized in both sexes - evidence from functional MRI. Brain 122: 199-208.
22. Goodglass H (1993): Understanding aphasia. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
23. Gross J, Ioannides AA, Dammers J, Maess B, Friederici AD, Müller-Gärtner H-W (1998): Magnetic field tomography analysis of continuous speech. Brain Top 10:273-281.
24. Hahne A, Friederici AD (1999): Electrophysiological evidence for two steps in syntactic analysis: early automatic and late controlled processes. J Cog Neurosci 11:193-204.
25. Hämäläinen MS, Sarvas J (1987): Feasibility of the homogenous head model in the interpretation of neuromagnetic data. Phys Med Biol 32:91-97.
26. Hécaen H, DeAgostini M, Monzon-Montes A (1981): Cerebral organization in lefthanders. Brain Lang 12:261-284.
27. Helenius P, Salmelin R, Service E, Connolly JF (1998): Distinct time courses of word and context comprehension in the left temporal cortex. Brain 121:1133-1142.
28. Jaeger JJ, Lockwood AH, Vanvalin RD, Kemmerer DL, Murphy BW, Wack DS (1998): Sex differences in brain regions activated by grammatical and reading tasks. NeuroReport 9:2803-2807.
29. Just MA, Carpenter PA, Keller TA, Eddy WF, Thulborn KR (1996): Brain activation modulated by sentence comprehension. Science 274:114-116.
30. Knoesche T, Maess B, Friederici AD (1999): Processing of syntactic information monitored by brain surface current density mapping based on MEG. Brain Top 12:75-87.
31. Kutas M, Hillyard SA (1983): Event-related potentials to grammatical errors and semantic anomalies. Mem Cog 11:539-550.
32. Lake DA, Bryden MP (1976): Handedness and sex differences in hemispheric asymmetry. Brain Lang 3:266-282.
33. Levelt W (1989): Speaking: from intention to articulation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
34. Mazoyer BM, Tzourio N, Frak V, Syrota A, Murayama N, Levrier O, Salamon G, Dehaene S, Cohen L, Mehler J (1993): The cortical representation of speech. J Cog Neurosci 5:467-479.
35. McGlone J (1978): Sex differences in functional brain asymmetry. Cortex 14:122-128.
36. McGlone J (1980): Sex differences in human brain organization: a critical survey. Behav Brain Sci 3:215-227.
37. Meyer M, Friederici AD, von Cramon DY (2000): Neurocognition of auditory sentence comprehension: event-related fMRI reveals sensitivity to syntactic violations and task demands. Cog Brain Res 9:19-33.
38. Müller R-A, Rothermel RD, Behen ME, Muzik O, Mangner TJ, Chugani HT (1997): Receptive and expressive language activations for sentences: a PET study. NeuroReport 8:3767-3770.
39. Münte TF, Heinze H-J, Matzke M, Wieringa BM, Johannes S (1998): Brain potentials and syntactic violations revisited: no evidence for specificity of the syntactic positive shift. Neuropsych 36:217-226.
40. Neville HJ, Nicol J, Barss A, Forster KI, Garrett MF (1991): Syntactically based sentence processing classes: evidence from event-related brain potentials. J Cog Neurosci 3:151-165.
41. Oldfield RC (1971): The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh Inventory. Neuropsychology 9:97-113.
42. Osterhout L, Hagoort P (1998): A superficial resemblance does not necessarily mean that you are a part of the family: counterarguments to Coulson, King and Kutas (1998) in the P600/ SPS-P300 debate. Lang Cog Proc 14:1-14.
43. Petersen SE, Fox PT, Posner MI, Mintum M, Raichle ME (1989): Positron emission tomographic studies of the processing of single words. J Cog Neurosci 1:153-170.
44. Price CJ, Moore CJ, Humphreys GW, Wise RJS (1997): Segregating semantic from phonological processes during reading. J Cog Neurosci 9:727-733.
45. Segalowitz SG, Bryden MP (1983): Individual differences in hemispheric representation of language. In: Segalowitz SG, editor. Language functions and brain organization. New York: Academic Press, p 341-372.
46. Shaywitz BA, Pugh KR, Constable RT, Shaywitz SE, Bronen RA, Fulbright RK, Shankweiler DP, Katz L, Fletcher JM, Skudlarski P, Gore JC (1995): Localization of semantic processing using functional resonance imaging. Human Brain Mapp 2:149-158.
47. Stromswold K, Caplan D, Alpert N, Rauch S (1996): Localization of syntactic comprehension by positron emission tomography. Brain Lang 52:452-473.
48. Talairach J, Tournoux P (1988): Co-planar stereotaxic atlas of the human brain. New York: Thieme.
49. Tervaniemi M, Kujala A, Alho K, Virtanen J, Ilmoniemi RJ, Näätänen R (1999): Functional specialization of the human auditory cortex in processing phonetic and musical sounds: a Magnetoencephalographic (MEG) study. NeuroImage 9:330-336.
50. van Turennout M, Hagoort P, Brown CM (1998): Brain activity during speaking: from syntax to phonology in 40 milliseconds. Science 280:572-574.
51. Wang Y, Yang F (1995): Dynamic extraction of visual evoked potentials through spatial analysis and dipole localization. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 42:762-768.
52. Wernicke C (1874): Der aphasische symptomenkomplex. Breslau: Cohn and Weigert.
53. Wise R, Chollet F, Hadar U, Friston K, Hoffner E, Frackowiak R (1991): Distribution of cortical neural networks involved in word comprehension and word retrieval. Brain 114:1803-1817.