Lexical access and selection of contextually appropriate meaning for ambiguous words

NeuroImage

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 576-588

  Ihara, Aya ^a   Hayakawa, Tomoe ^a,b   Wei, Qiang ^a,c   Munetsuna, Shinji ^a,c   Fujimaki, Norio ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Context; Inferior frontal cortex; Lexical ambiguity; Magnetoencephalography (MEG); N400; Selection; Semantic priming

Indexed keywords

AMBIGUITY; AMBIGUUS NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; MAGNETOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE CELL; NEUROIMAGING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; PARIETAL LOBE; PATIENT SELECTION; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; TEMPORAL LOBE; VOCABULARY;

EID: 35148849147     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.07.047     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. In: Amano S., and Kondo T. (Eds). NTT Database Series. Nihongo-no Goitokusei: Lexical Properties of Japanese vol. 1 (1999), Sanseido-shoten Co. Ltd, Tokyo
2. In: Amano S., and Kondo T. (Eds). NTT Database Series. Nihongo-no Goitokusei: Lexical Properties of Japanese vol. 7 (2000), Sanseido-shoten Co. Ltd, Tokyo
3. Azuma T., and Van Orden G.C. Why safe is better than fast: the relatedness of a word's meanings affects lexical decision times. J. Mem. Lang. 36 (1997) 484-504
4. Badre D., Poldrack R.A., Pare-Blagoev E.J., Insler R.Z., and Wagner A.D. Dissociable controlled retrieval and generalized selection mechanisms in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Neuron 47 (2005) 907-918
5. Baldo J.V., and Dronkers N.F. The role of inferior parietal and inferior frontal cortex in working memory. Neuropsychology 20 (2006) 529-538
6. Beretta A., Fiorentino R., and Poeppel D. The effects of homonymy and polysemy on lexical access: an MEG study. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 24 (2005) 57-65
7. Bookheimer S. Functional MRI of language: new approaches to understanding the cortical organization of semantic processing. Annu. Rev. Neurosci. 25 (2002) 151-188
8. Booth J.R., Lu D., Burman D.D., Chou T.L., Jin Z., Peng D.L., Zhang L., Ding G.S., Deng Y., and Liu L. Specialization of phonological and semantic processing in Chinese word reading. Brain Res. 1071 (2006) 197-207
9. Borowsky R., and Masson M.E.J. Semantic ambiguity effects in word identification. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. 22 (1996) 63-85
10. Bunge S.A., Wendelken C., Badre D., and Wagner A.D. Analogical reasoning and prefrontal cortex: evidence for separable retrieval and integration mechanisms. Cereb. Cortex 15 (2005) 239-249
11. Burgess C., and Simpson G.B. Cerebral hemispheric mechanisms in the retrieval of ambiguous word meanings. Brain Lang. 33 (1988) 86-103
12. Cardillo E.R., Aydelott J., Matthews P.M., and Devlin J.T. Left inferior prefrontal cortex activity reflects inhibitory rather than facilitatory priming. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 16 (2004) 1552-1561
13. Coney J., and Evans K.D. Hemispheric asymmetries in the resolution of lexical ambiguity. Neuropsychologia 38 (2000) 272-282
14. Copland D.A., Chenery H.J., and Murdoch B.E. Hemispheric contributions to lexical ambiguity resolution: evidence from individuals with complex language impairment following left-hemisphere lesions. Brain Lang. 81 (2002) 131-143
15. Démonet J.F., Chollet F., Ramsay S., Cardebat D., Nespoulous J.L., Wise R., Rascol A., and Frackowiak R. The anatomy of phonological and semantic processing in normal subjects. Brain 115 (1992) 1753-1768
16. Dhond R.P., Witzel T., Dale A.M., and Halgren E. Spatiotemporal brain maps of delayed word repetition and recognition. NeuroImage 28 (2005) 293-304
17. Faust M., and Chiarello C. Sentence context and lexical ambiguity resolution by the two hemispheres. Neuropsychologia 36 (1998) 827-835
18. Faust M., and Lavidor M. Semantically convergent and semantically divergent priming in the cerebral hemispheres: lexical decision and semantic judgment. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 17 (2003) 585-597
19. Fiez J.A., and Petersen S.E. Neuroimaging studies of word reading. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A. 95 (1998) 914-921
20. Fujimaki N., Miyauchi S., Putz B., Sasaki Y., Takino R., Sakai K., and Tamada T. Functional magnetic resonance imaging of neural activity related to orthographic, phonological, and lexico-semantic judgments of visually presented characters and words. Hum. Brain Mapp. 8 (1999) 44-59
21. Fujimaki N., Hayakawa T., Nielsen M., Knosche T.R., and Miyauchi S. An fMRI-constrained MEG source analysis with procedures for dividing and grouping activation. NeuroImage 17 (2002) 324-343
22. Gold B.T., Balota D.A., Jones S.J., Powell D.K., Smith C.D., and Andersen A.H. Dissociation of automatic and strategic lexical-semantics: functional magnetic resonance imaging evidence for differing roles of multiple frontotemporal regions. J. Neurosci. 26 (2006) 6523-6532
23. Gough P.M., Nobre A.C., and Devlin J.T. Dissociating linguistic processes in the left inferior frontal cortex with transcranial magnetic stimulation. J. Neurosci. 25 (2005) 8010-8016
24. Grindrod C.M., and Baum S.R. Sensitivity to local sentence context information in lexical ambiguity resolution: evidence from left- and right-hemisphere-damaged individuals. Brain Lang. 85 (2003) 503-523
25. Gunter T.C., Friederici A.D., and Schriefers H. Syntactic gender and semantic expectancy: ERPs reveal early autonomy and late interaction. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 12 (2000) 556-568
26. Gunter T.C., Wagner S., and Friederici A.D. Working memory and lexical ambiguity resolution as revealed by ERPs: a difficult case for activation theories. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 15 (2003) 643-657
27. Hagoort P. Impairments of lexical-semantic processing in aphasia: evidence from the processing of lexical ambiguities. Brain Lang. 45 (1993) 189-232
28. Halgren E., Dhond R.P., Christensen N., Van Petten C., Marinkovic K., Lewine J.D., and Dale A.M. N400-like magnetoencephalography responses modulated by semantic context, word frequency, and lexical class in sentences. NeuroImage 17 (2002) 1101-1116
29. Helenius P., Salmelin R., Service E., and Connolly J.F. Distinct time courses of word and context comprehension in the left temporal cortex. Brain 121 (1998) 1133-1142
30. Hino Y., and Lupker S.J. Effects of polysemy in lexical decision and naming? An alternative to lexical access accounts. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. 22 (1996) 1331-1356
31. Hogaboam T.W., and Perfetti C.A. Lexical ambiguity and sentence comprehension. J. Verbal Learn. Verbal Behav. 14 (1975) 265-274
32. Huang M.X., Dale A.M., Song T., Halgren E., Harrington D.L., Podgorny I., Canive J.M., Lewis S., and Lee R.R. Vector-based spatial-temporal minimum L1-norm solution for MEG. Neuroimage 31 (2006) 1025-1037
33. Kellas G., Ferraro F.R., and Simpson G.B. Lexical ambiguity and the timecourse of attentional allocation in word recognition. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. 14 (1988) 601-609
34. Klein D.E., and Murphy G.L. The representation of polysemous words. J. Mem. Lang. 45 (2001) 259-282
35. Kotz S.A., Cappa S.F., von Cramon D.Y., and Friederici A.D. Modulation of the lexical-semantic network by auditory semantic priming: an event-related functional MRI study. NeuroImage 17 (2002) 1761-1772
36. Kutas M., and Federmeier K.D. Electrophysiology reveals semantic memory use in language comprehension. Trends Cogn. Sci. 4 (2000) 463-470
37. Marinkovic K., Dhond R.P., Dale A.M., Glessner M., Carr V., and Halgren E. Spatiotemporal dynamics of modality-specific and supramodal word processing. Neuron 38 (2003) 487-497
38. Matsumoto A., Iidaka T., Haneda K., Okada T., and Sadato N. Linking semantic priming effect in functional MRI and event-related potentials. NeuroImage 24 (2005) 624-634
39. Matsuura K., and Okabe Y. Selective minimum-norm solution of the biomagnetic inverse problem. IEEE Trans. Biomed. Eng. 42 (1995) 608-615
40. Matsuura K., and Okabe Y. Reconstruction of sparse biomagnetic source distribution (in Japanese). J. Inst. Elect. Eng. Jpn. 116-C (1996) 223-229
41. McCarthy G., Nobre A.C., Bentin S., and Spencer D.D. Language-related field potentials in the anterior-medial temporal lobe: I. Intracranial distribution and neural generators. J. Neurosci. 15 (1995) 1080-1089
42. Meyer D.E., and Schvaneveldt R.W. Facilitation in recognizing pairs of words: evidence of a dependence between retrieval operations. J. Exp. Psychol. 90 (1971) 227-234
43. Neely J.H. Semantic priming and retrieval from lexical memory: roles of inhibitionless spreading activation and limited-capacity attention. J. Exp. Psychol. 106 (1977) 226-254
44. Neely J.H., Keefe D.E., and Ross K.L. Semantic priming in the lexical decision task: roles of prospective prime-generated expectancies and retrospective semantic matching. J. Exp. Psychol. Learn. Mem. Cogn. 15 (1989) 1003-1019
45. Nobre A.C., and McCarthy G. Language-related field potentials in the anterior-medial temporal lobe: II. Effects of word type and semantic priming. J. Neurosci. 15 (1995) 1090-1098
46. Oldfield R.C. The assessment and analysis of handedness: the Edinburgh inventory. Neuropsychologia 9 (1971) 97-113
47. Paulesu E., Frith C.D., and Frackowiak R.S. The neural correlates of the verbal component of working memory. Nature 362 (1993) 342-345
48. Petersen S.E., Fox P.T., Posner M.I., Mintun M., and Raichle M.E. Positron emission tomographic studies of the cortical anatomy of single-word processing. Nature 331 (1988) 585-589
49. Petersen S.E., Fox P.T., Posner M.I., Mintun M., and Raichle M.E. Positron Emission Tomographic Studies of the Processing of Single Words. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 1 (1989) 153-170
50. Petrides M., and Pandya D.N. Comparative cytoarchitectonic analysis of the human and the macaque ventrolateral prefrontal cortex and corticocortical connection patterns in the monkey. Eur. J. Neurosci. 16 (2002) 291-310
51. Price C.J. The anatomy of language: contributions from functional neuroimaging. J. Anat. 197 Pt. 3 (2000) 335-359
52. Price C.J., Wise R.J., Watson J.D., Patterson K., Howard D., and Frackowiak R.S. Brain activity during reading. The effects of exposure duration and task. Brain 117 (1994) 1255-1269
53. Pylkkanen L., and Marantz A. Tracking the time course of word recognition with MEG. Trends Cogn. Sci. 7 (2003) 187-189
54. Pylkkanen L., Stringfellow A., and Marantz A. Neuromagnetic evidence for the timing of lexical activation: an MEG component sensitive to phonotactic probability but not to neighborhood density. Brain Lang. 81 (2002) 666-678
55. Pylkkanen L., Llinas R., and Murphy G.L. The representation of polysemy: MEG evidence. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 18 (2006) 97-109
56. Rissman J., Eliassen J.C., and Blumstein S.E. An event-related FMRI investigation of implicit semantic priming. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 15 (2003) 1160-1175
57. Rodd J., Gaskell G., and Marslen-Wilson W. Making sense of semantic ambiguity: semantic competition in lexical access. J. Mem. Lang. 46 (2002) 245-266
58. Rodd J.M., Davis M.H., and Johnsrude I.S. The neural mechanisms of speech comprehension: fMRI studies of semantic ambiguity. Cereb. Cortex 15 (2005) 1261-1269
59. Rossell S.L., Price C.J., and Nobre A.C. The anatomy and time course of semantic priming investigated by fMRI and ERPs. Neuropsychologia 41 (2003) 550-564
60. In: Sakuma N., Ijuin M., Fushimi T., Tatsumi I., Tanaka M., Amano S., and Kondo T. (Eds). NTT Database Series. Nihongo-no Goitokusei: Lexical Properties of Japanese vol. 8 (2005), Sanseido-shoten Co. Ltd, Tokyo
61. Scott S.K., Blank C.C., Rosen S., and Wise R.J. Identification of a pathway for intelligible speech in the left temporal lobe. Brain 123 Pt. 12 (2000) 2400-2406
62. Scott S.K., Leff A.P., and Wise R.J. Going beyond the information given: a neural system supporting semantic interpretation. NeuroImage 19 (2003) 870-876
63. Sekiguchi T., Koyama S., and Kakigi R. The effect of phonological repetition on cortical magnetic responses evoked by visually presented words. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 16 (2004) 1250-1261
64. Shinmura, I. (Ed.), 2000. Kojien, 5th ed. (CD-ROM). Iwanami-shoten Co. Ltd., Tokyo.
65. Simpson G.B. Meaning dominance and semantic context in the processing of lexical ambiguity. J. Verbal Learn. Verbal Behav. 20 (1981) 120-136
66. Spitsyna G., Warren J.E., Scott S.K., Turkheimer F.E., and Wise R.J. Converging language streams in the human temporal lobe. J. Neurosci. 26 (2006) 7328-7336
67. Swaab T.Y., Brown C., and Hagoort P. Understanding ambiguous words in sentence contexts: electrophysiological evidence for delayed contextual selection in Broca's aphasia. Neuropsychologia 36 (1998) 737-761
68. Swaab T.Y., Baynes K., and Knight R.T. Separable effects of priming and imageability on word processing: an ERP study. Brain Res. Cogn. Brain Res. 15 (2002) 99-103
69. Swaab T., Brown C., and Hagoort P. Understanding words in sentence contexts: the time course of ambiguity resolution. Brain Lang. 86 (2003) 326-343
70. Swinney D.A. Lexical access during sentence comprehension: (Re)consideration of context effects. J. Verbal Learn. Verbal Behav. 18 (1979) 645-659
71. Talairach J., and Tournoux P. Co-Planar Stereotaxic Atlas of the Human Brain (1988), Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc, New York
72. Thompson-Schill S.L., D'Esposito M., and Kan I.P. Effects of repetition and competition on activity in left prefrontal cortex during word generation. Neuron 23 (1999) 513-522
73. Vandenberghe R., Price C., Wise R., Josephs O., and Frackowiak R.S. Functional anatomy of a common semantic system for words and pictures. Nature 383 (1996) 254-256
74. Vihla M., Laine M., and Salmelin R. Cortical dynamics of visual/semantic vs. phonological analysis in picture confrontation. NeuroImage 33 (2006) 732-738
75. Wheatley T., Weisberg J., Beauchamp M.S., and Martin A. Automatic priming of semantically related words reduces activity in the fusiform gyrus. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 17 (2005) 1871-1885
76. Wible C.G., Han S.D., Spencer M.H., Kubicki M., Niznikiewicz M.H., Jolesz F.A., McCarley R.W., and Nestor P. Connectivity among semantic associates: an fMRI study of semantic priming. Brain Lang. 97 (2006) 294-305
77. Zatorre R.J., Meyer E., Gjedde A., and Evans A.C. PET studies of phonetic processing of speech: review, replication, and reanalysis. Cereb. Cortex 6 (1996) 21-30
78. Zempleni M.Z., Renken R., Hoeks J.C., Hoogduin J.M., and Stowe L.A. Semantic ambiguity processing in sentence context: Evidence from event-related fMRI. NeuroImage 34 (2007) 1270-1279