Involvement of the cerebellum in semantic discrimination: An fMRI study
We investigated, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), whether semantic discrimination, an inner linguistic task without overt articulation, can elicit activation in the cerebellum. Six subjects performed three semantic tasks with different loads of discrimination while being scanned....
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Published in | Human brain mapping Vol. 18; no. 3; pp. 208 - 214 |
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Main Authors | , , , , , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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New York
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
01.03.2003
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Summary: | We investigated, using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), whether semantic discrimination, an inner linguistic task without overt articulation, can elicit activation in the cerebellum. Six subjects performed three semantic tasks with different loads of discrimination while being scanned. All three semantic tasks activated distributed brain areas, including the right posterior inferior cerebellum. Much stronger activation was found in the cerebellum in more difficult tasks, in terms of the activation volume and signal intensity. These results suggest that the cerebellum activation is involved in semantic discrimination and is modulated by discrimination difficulty. Hum. Brain Mapping 18:208–214, 2003. © 2003 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. |
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Bibliography: | National Natural Science Foundation of China - No. 30128005 Ministry of Science and Technology of China - No. G1999054000 ArticleID:HBM10095 istex:5CEFDFA1CDA8AC21E175B40B014743CB120132C4 ark:/67375/WNG-1RX908LQ-T ObjectType-Article-2 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-1 content type line 23 ObjectType-Article-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 |
ISSN: | 1065-9471 1097-0193 |
DOI: | 10.1002/hbm.10095 |