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Sequential Processing of Lexical, Grammatical, and Phonological Information Within Broca’s Area

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Sahin, Ned T., Pinker, Steven, Cash, Sydney S., Schomer, Donald, Halgren, Eric·2009·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.1174481PMC PMC4030760
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Seeing the Brain's One, Two, Three: Taking advantage of the rare opportunity to record neuronal activity in the human brain using intracranial electrodes, Sahin et al. (p. 445 ; see the Perspective by Hagoort and Levelt ) document the spatial and temporal pattern of neuronal populations within Broca's area as patients thought of a single word, changed its tense (for verbs) or number (for nouns), and articulated the word silently. For these three stages, they detected activity at 200, 320, and 450 milliseconds, moving in a caudal to rostral direction. These data fit neatly within the roughly 600 milliseconds required for the onset of speech and map the distinct neural computations within an area of the brain, known for almost a century and a half, as important for the production of language.

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  1. Levelt W. J. M., Roelofs A., Meyer A. S., Behav. Brain Sci. 22, 1 (1999).11301520
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Authors
Sahin, N. T., Pinker, S., Cash, S. S., Schomer, D., & Halgren, E.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (US)
  • University of California San Diego (US)
Corresponding author
Sahin, Ned T.
ORCID
Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2009-10-16
Volume
326
Issue
5951
Pages
445-449
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.1174481
PMC
PMC4030760
OpenAlex
W2043247889
Cited by
452
References
32
Citations by year
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FWCI
17.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University) (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH070328)
  • National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NS-44623, NS 18741, R01NS044623, R01NS018741)
  • National Center for Research Resources (P41-RR-14075, P41RR014075)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD18381, R01HD018381)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Reading and Literacy Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
Keywords
Broca's area, lexical processing, grammatical processing, phonological processing, local field potentials, intracranial electrophysiology, word reading, grammatical inflection, spatiotemporal neural activity
MeSH terms
Adult, Brain Mapping, Electrodes, Implanted, Epilepsy, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Language, Linguistics, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mental Processes, Middle Aged, Neurons, Speech, Time Factors, Electrophysiological Phenomena

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