From Perception to Sentence Comprehension: The Convergence of Auditory and Visual Information of Language in the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex

• Published in: NeuroImage (Orlando, Fla.) Vol. 16; no. 4; pp. 883 - 900
• Main Authors: Homae, Fumitaka, Hashimoto, Ryuichiro, Nakajima, Kyoichi, Miyashita, Yasushi, Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.08.2002; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Auditory Pathways - physiology; Brain Mapping; Cognition - physiology; conjunction analysis; Dominance, Cerebral - physiology; fMRI; frontal cortex; Frontal Lobe - physiology; Humans; Language; lexico-semantics; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; modality; Reading; Semantics; sentence processing; Speech Perception - physiology; Visual Pathways - physiology; fMRI; frontal cortex; conjunction analysis; modality; language; lexico-semantics; sentence processing

We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to characterize cortical activation associated with sentence processing, thereby elucidating where in the brain auditory and visual inputs of words converge during sentence comprehension. Within one scanning session, subjects performed three types...