Cerebellar involvement in verb generation: an fMRI study
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A possible role of the human cerebellum in the generation of verbs corresponding to presented nouns has been suggested. Previous functional brain imaging studies have compared generation of verbs with the reading of nouns as a measure of verb generation. In the present fMRI study involving healthy human subjects, the effects of speech articulation and motor imagery associated with verb production were investigated in greater detail. Generation of verbs to visually presented nouns was compared to a condition in which subjects read those same verbs that had been individually generated by each subject. Activation in lobule HVI/Crus I of the right cerebellar hemisphere was found as a measure of verb generation. In contrast, reading of verbs as a measure of speech articulation evoked cerebellar activations in both left and right paravermal lobule VI. These results suggest an involvement of the right lateral cerebellar hemisphere in linguistic functions during verb generation. Alternatively, effects of inner speech could also possibly explain the results.
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Speech articulation activates left and right medial superior posterior cerebellum (paravermal lobule VI).
“In the cerebellum, the areas activated by speech articulation were in the left and right medial superior posterior cerebellum (paravermal lobule VI) and these areas were separated from the right lateral superior posterior cerebellum (HVI/Crus I) associated with word generation (Frings et al., 2006) and the right inferior posterior cerebellum (HVIIIA) that was activated by vocalisation and”
From A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012) · cites this paper as Frings et al., 2006
Right lateral superior posterior cerebellum (HVI/Crus I) is associated with word generation.
“and these areas were separated from the right lateral superior posterior cerebellum (HVI/Crus I) associated with word generation (Frings et al., 2006)”
From A review and synthesis of the first 20years of PET and fMRI studies of heard speech, spoken language and reading (2012) · cites this paper as Frings et al., 2006
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- Authors
- Frings, M., Dimitrova, A., Schorn, C. F., Elles, H.-G., Hein-Kropp, C., Gizewski, E. R., Diener, H. C., & Timmann, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Duisburg-Essen (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Frings, Markus
- Venue
- Neuroscience Letters
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-11
- Volume
- 409
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 19-23
- ISSN
- 0304-3940 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2010831993
- Cited by
- 149
- References
- 19
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- FWCI
- 2.27
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Neuroscience Letters (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hemispheric Asymmetry in Neuroscience
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Motor Control and Adaptation
- Keywords
- cerebellum, verb generation, speech articulation, motor imagery, inner speech, language processing
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cerebellum, Cues, Female, Humans, Language, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Models, Neurological, Oxygen, Reading, Speech, Stereotaxic Techniques, Models, Statistical, Linear Models
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