Neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a morphologically rich language: An fMRI study

• Published in: Brain and language Vol. 98; no. 2; pp. 182 - 193
• Main Authors: Lehtonen, Minna, Vorobyev, Victor A., Hugdahl, Kenneth, Tuokkola, Terhi, Laine, Matti
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.08.2006; Elsevier
• Subjects: Adult; Brain - physiology; Brain Mapping; Comprehension - physiology; Diagnostic Tests; Female; Finnish; Finno Ugric Languages; fMRI; Humans; Inflection; Language Processing; Magnetic Resonance Imaging - methods; Male; Morphological processing; Neurolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Semantic processing; Speech Perception - physiology; Syntactic processing; Visual word form processing; Word Recognition; fMRI; Semantic processing; Inflection; Finnish; Syntactic processing; Morphological processing; Visual word form processing

By employing visual lexical decision and functional MRI, we studied the neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a highly inflected language (Finnish) where most inflected noun forms elicit a consistent processing cost during word recognition. This behavioral effect could reflect suffix s...