The neural correlates of statistical learning in a word segmentation task: An fMRI study

Brain and Language

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 46-54

  Karuza, Elisabeth A ^a   Newport, Elissa L ^a,b   Aslin, Richard N ^a,c   Starling, Sarah J ^a   Tivarus, Madalina E ^a,c   Bavelier, Daphne ^a,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Artificial language; Broca's area; FMRI; LIFG; Sequence learning; Statistical learning; Word segmentation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPLICIT MEMORY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL; NORMAL HUMAN; PARS OPERCULARIS; PARS TRIANGULARIS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; WORD RECOGNITION;

ARTIFICIAL LANGUAGE; BROCA'S AREA; FMRI; LIFG; SEQUENCE LEARNING; STATISTICAL LEARNING; WORD SEGMENTATION;

ADOLESCENT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REACTION TIME; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84885468646     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2012.11.007     Document Type: Article

References (62)

1. Abla D., Katahira K., Okanoya K. Online assessment of statistical learning by event-related potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2008, 20(6):952-964.
2. Abla D., Okanoya K. Statistical segmentation of tone sequences activates the left inferior frontal cortex: A near-infrared spectroscopy study. Neuropsychologia 2008, 46:2787-2795.
3. Alexander G.E., DeLong M.R., Strick P.L. Parallel organization of functionally segregated circuits linking basal ganglia and cortex. Annual Review of Neuroscience 1986, 9:357-381.
4. Beckmann C.F., Jenkinson M., Smith S.M. General multilevel linear modeling for group analysis in fMRI. Neuroimage 2003, 20(2):1052-1063.
5. Broca P.P. Perte de la parole, ramollissement chronique, et destruction partielle du lobe antérieur gauche du cerveau. Bulletin de la Société Anthropologique 1861, 2:235-238.
6. Conway C.M., Pisoni D.B. Neurocognitive basis of implicit learning of sequential structure and its relation to language processing. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2008, 1145:113-131.
7. Cunillera T., Camara E., Toro J.M., Marco-Pallares J., Sebastian-Galles N., Ortiz H., et al. Time course and functional neuroanatomy of speech segmentation in adults. Neuroimage 2009, 48(3):541-553.
8. Fiser J., Aslin R.N. Statistical learning of higher-order temporal structure from visual shape sequences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 2002, 28(3):458-467.
9. Fiser J., Aslin R.N. Encoding multi-element scenes: Statistical learning of visual feature hierarchies. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 2005, 134:521-537.
10. Fletcher P., Buchel C., Josephs O., Friston K., Dolan R. Learning-related neuronal responses in prefrontal cortex studied with functional neuroimaging. Cerebral Cortex 1999, 9(2):168-178.
11. Forkstam C., Hagoort P., Fernandez G., Ingvar M., Petersson K.M. Neural correlates of artificial syntactic structure classification. Neuroimage 2006, 32(2):956-967.
12. Furl N., Kumar S., Alter K., Durrant S., Shawe-Taylor J., Griffiths T. Neural prediction of higher-order auditory sequence statistics. Neuroimage 2011, 54(3):2267-2277.
13. Gebhart A.L., Aslin R.N., Newport E.L. Changing structures in midstream: Learning along the statistical garden path. Cognitive Science 2009, 33(6):1087-1116.
14. Gebhart A.L., Newport E.L., Aslin R.N. Statistical learning of adjacent and nonadjacent dependencies among nonlinguistic sounds. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 2009, 16(3):486-490.
15. Geschwind N. The organization of language and the brain. Science 1970, 170(3961):940-944.
16. Gomez R.L., Gerken L. Artificial grammar learning by 1-year-olds leads to specific and abstract knowledge. Cognition 1999, 70(2):109-135.
17. Grafton S.T., Hazeltine E., Ivry R. Functional mapping of sequence learning in normal humans. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1995, 7(4):497-510.
18. Hugdahl K., Thomsen T., Ersland L. Sex differences in visuo-spatial processing: An fmri study of mental rotation. Neuropsychologia 2006, 44(9):1575-1583.
19. Jenkinson M., Bannister P., Brady M., Smith S. Improved optimization for the robust and accurate linear registration and motion correction of brain images. Neuroimage 2002, 17(2):825-841.
20. Jenkinson M., Smith S. A global optimization method for robust affine registration of brain images. Medical Image Analysis 2001, 5(2):143-156.
21. Keppel G., Wickens T.D. Design and analysis: A researcher's handbook 2004, Pearson Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.
22. Kimura D., Folb S. Neural processing of backwards-speech sounds. Science 1968, 161(3839):395-396.
23. Lieberman M.D., Chang G.Y., Chiao J., Bookheimer S.Y., Knowlton B.J. An event-related fmri study of artificial grammar learning in a balanced chunk strength design. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2004, 16(3):427-438.
24. Maye J., Werker J.F., Gerken L. Infant sensitivity to distributional information can affect phonetic discrimination. Cognition 2002, 82(3):B101-B111.
25. McNealy K., Mazziotta J.C., Dapretto M. Cracking the language code: Neural mechanisms underlying speech parsing. Journal of Neuroscience 2006, 26(29):7629-7639.
26. Meyer T., Olson C.R. Statistical learning of visual transitions in monkey inferotemporal cortex. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2011, 108(48):19401-19406.
27. Moss H.E., Abdallah S., Fletcher P., Bright P., Pilgrim L., Acres K., et al. Selecting among competing alternatives: Selection and retrieval in the left inferior frontal gyrus. Cerebral Cortex 2005, 15(11):1723-1735.
28. Newport E.L., Aslin R.N. Learning at a distance i. Statistical learning of non-adjacent dependencies. Cognitive Psychology 2004, 48(2):127-162.
29. Nissen M.J., Bullemer P. Attentional requirements of learning: Evidence from performance measures. Cognitive Psychology 1987, 19(1):1-32.
30. Novick J.M., Trueswell J.C., Thompson-Schill S.L. Cognitive control and parsing: Reexamining the role of broca's area in sentence comprehension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience 2005, 5(3):263-281.
31. Novick J.M., Trueswell J.C., Thompson-Schill S.L. Broca's area and language processing: Evidence for the cognitive control connection. Language and Linguistics Compass 2010, 4(10):906-924.
32. Opitz B., Friederici A.D. Interactions of the hippocampal system and the prefrontal cortex in learning language-like rules. Neuroimage 2003, 19(4):1730-1737.
33. Overath T., Cusack R., Kumar S., Warren J.D., von Kriegstein K., Grube M., et al. An information theoretic characterisation of auditory encoding. PLoS Biology 2007, 5(11):e288.
34. Pasupathy A., Miller E.K. Different time courses of learning-related activity in the prefrontal cortex and striatum. Nature 2005, 433(7028):873-876.
35. Peigneux P., Maquet P., Meulemans T., Destrebecqz A., Laureys S., Degueldre C., et al. Striatum forever, despite sequence learning variability: A random effect analysis of PET data. Human Brain Mapping 2000, 10(4):179-194.
36. Perruchet P., Pacton S. Implicit learning and statistical learning: One phenomenon, two approaches. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 2006, 10(5):233-238.
37. Petersson K.-M., Folia V., Hagoort P. What artificial grammar learning reveals about the neurobiology of syntax. Brain and Language 2012, 120(2):83-95.
38. Petersson K.M., Forkstam C., Ingvar M. Artificial syntactic violations activate Broca's region. Cognitive Science 2004, 28(3):383-407.
39. Poldrack R.A., Rodriguez P. How do memory systems interact? Evidence from human classification learning. Neurobiology of Learning and Memory 2004, 82(3):324-332.
40. Reber A.S. Implicit learning of artificial grammars. Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior 1967, 6:855-863.
41. Saffran J.R., Aslin R.N., Newport E.L. Statistical learning by 8-month-old infants. Science 1996, 274:1926-1928.
42. Saffran J.R., Newport E.L., Aslin R.N. Word segmentation: The role of distributional cues. Journal of Memory and Language 1996, 35(4):606-621.
43. Saffran J.R., Johnson E.K., Aslin R.N., Newport E.L. Statistical learning of tonal sequences by human infants and adults. Cognition 1999, 70:27-52.
44. Sakai K.L., Hashimoto R., Homae F. Sentence processing in the cerebral cortex. Neuroscience Research 2001, 39:1-10.
45. Santi A., Grodzinsky Y. Taxing working memory with syntax: Bihemispheric modulations. Human Brain Mapping 2007, 28(11):1089-1097.
46. Santi A., Grodzinsky Y. Working memory and syntax interact in Broca's area. Neuroimage 2007, 37(1):8-17.
47. Schendan H.E., Searl M.M., Melrose R.J., Stern C.E. An fmri study of the role of the medial temporal lobe in implicit and explicit sequence learning. Neuron 2003, 37(6):1013-1025.
48. Simon J.R., Vaidya C.J., Howard J.H., Howard D.V. The effects of aging on the neural basis of implicit associative learning in a probabilistic triplets learning task. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2012, 24(2):451-463.
49. Skosnik P.D., Mirza F., Gitelman D.R., Parrish T.B., Mesulam M.M., Reber P.J. Neural correlates of artificial grammar learning. Neuroimage 2002, 17(3):1306-1314.
50. Smith S.M. Fast robust automated brain extraction. Human Brain Mapping 2002, 17(3):143-155.
51. Smith S.M., Jenkinson M., Woolrich M.W., Beckmann C.F., Behrens T.E., Johansen-Berg H., et al. Advances in functional and structural MR image analysis and implementation as FSL. Neuroimage 2004, 23(Suppl. 1):S208-219.
52. Thompson S.P., Newport E.L. Statistical learning of syntax: The role of transitional probability. Language Learning and Development 2007, 3(1):1-42.
53. Tillmann B., Janata P., Bharucha J.J. Activation of the inferior frontal cortex in musical priming. Cognitive Brain Research 2003, 16(2):145-161.
54. Toro J.M., Trobalon J.B. Statistical computations over a speech stream in a rodent. Perception and Psychophysics 2005, 67(5):867-875.
55. Turk-Browne N.B., Scholl B.J., Chun M.M., Johnson M.K. Neural evidence of statistical learning: Efficient detection of visual regularities without awareness. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2009, 21(10):1934-1945.
56. Turk-Browne N.B., Scholl B.J., Johnson M.K., Chun M.M. Implicit perceptual anticipation triggered by statistical learning. Journal of Neuroscience 2010, 11177-11187.
57. Ullman M.T. A neurocognitive perspective on language: The declarative/procedural model. Nature Reviews Neuroscience 2001, 2(10):717-726.
58. Ullman M.T. Contributions of memory circuits to language: The declarative/procedural model. Cognition 2004, 92(1-2):231-270.
59. Ullman M.T., Corkin S., Coppola M., Hickok G., Growdon J.H., Koroshetz W.J., et al. A neural dissociation within language: Evidence that the mental dictionary is part of declarative memory, and that grammatical rules are processed by the procedural system. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 1997, 9(2):266-276.
60. Woolrich M.W., Behrens T.E.J., Beckmann C.F., Jenkinson M., Smith S.M. Multilevel linear modelling for fmri group analysis using Bayesian inference. Neuroimage 2004, 21(4):1732-1747.
61. Woolrich M.W., Jbabdi S., Patenaude B., Chappell M., Makni S., Behrens T., et al. Bayesian analysis of neuroimaging data in FSL. Neuroimage 2009, 45(Suppl. 1):S173-S186.
62. Worsley K.J., Evans A.C., Marrett S., Neelin P. A three-dimensional statistical analysis for cbf activation studies in human brain. Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism 1992, 12(6):900-918.