Effects of syntactic structure and propositional number on patterns of regional cerebral blood flow
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Positron emission tomography (PET) was used to determine regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) as a function of the syntactic form and propositional density of sentences. rCBF increased in the left pars opercularis, part of Broca's area, when subjects processed syntactically more complex sentences. There were no differences in rCBF in the perisylvian association cortex traditionally associated with language processing when subjects made plausibility judgments about sentences with two propositions as compared to sentences with one proposition, but rCBF increased in infero-posterior brain regions. These results suggest that there is a specialization of neural tissue in Broca's area for constructing aspects of the syntactic form of sentences to determine sentence meaning. They also suggest that this specialization is separate from the brain systems that are involved in utilizing the meaning of a sentence that has been understood to accomplish a task.
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Broca's area (BA 44 and sometimes BA 45) is important for syntactic processing, even when articulation is suppressed.
“There was continued emphasis on the importance of Broca's area (BA 44 and sometimes BA 45) for syntactic processing (Caplan et al., 1998,1999; Inui et al., 1998; Kang et al., 1999; Moro et al., 2001; Nakai et al., 1999; Ni et al., 2000) even when articulation was suppressed (Caplan et al., 2000).”
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 Caplan et al., 1998
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- Authors
- Caplan, D., Alpert, N., & Waters, G.
- Affiliations
- Massachusetts General Hospital (US)
- Boston University (US)
- Venue
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Published
- 1998-07-01
- Volume
- 10
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 541-552
- ISSN
- 0898-929X (ISSN-L)
- 1530-8898
- OpenAlex
- W2125649795
- Cited by
- 327
- References
- 30
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 4 · 2022: 5 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 9 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 6 · 2013: 7 · 2012: 18
- FWCI
- 8.96
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (DC02146, R01DC002146)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
- Keywords
- syntactic complexity, regional cerebral blood flow, Broca's area, sentence processing, language processing, sentence meaning
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Cerebrovascular Circulation, Conditioning, Psychological, Female, Frontal Lobe, Humans, Language, Male, Tomography, Emission-Computed
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