Study of Neurocognitive Sentence Processing based on Brain Imaging

2008 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18520291
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Tohoku University
• Principal Investigator: YOSHIMOTO Kei Tohoku University, 高等教育開発推進センター, 教授 (50282017)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MORI Yoshiki 筑波大学, 人文社会科学研究科, 准教授 (30306831) ; IKUTA Naho 東北大学, 加齢医学研究所, 博士研究員 (20374986)
• Project Period (FY): 2006 – 2008
• Keywords: 統語論 / 言語の生物的基盤 / 意味論 / 脳認知科学

Research Abstract

脳機能計測、特に機能的磁気共鳴イメージング法(fMRI)および脳波計測(EEG)の手法によってヒトが言語タスクを遂行中の脳活動を特定する実験を行い、そのデータにもとづいて、ヒトが脳内で文情報を処理する過程を論理文法的手法を用いてモデル化した。ヒトの言語処理過程に関するデータにもとづいて、文処理ストラテジーおよび文処理規則を形式文法理論を用いて構築した。

Research Products

• [Journal Article] Shallow Grammar+Constrained Semantics=Deep Grammar (2009)
  • Author(s): Alastair Butler and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: 言語処理学会第15回年次大会発表論文集 Pages: 662-665
• [Journal Article] Causal Implicature of Temporal Subordinate Clauses (2008)
  • Author(s): Yoshiki Mori
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of International Congress of Linguists 18(ソウル) Vol.2., p.161
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] インターネット仮想学習環境を用いた日本語学習者の格助詞習得過程データの収集 (2008)
  • Author(s): 吉本啓・蘇雅玲・杉浦謙介
  • Journal Title: 言語処理学会第14回年次大会発表論文集 Pages: 654-657
• [Journal Article] 文処理における容認性と語順の関係 (2008)
  • Author(s): 高橋慶・横山悟・神原利宗・吉本啓・川島隆太
  • Journal Title: 言語処理学会第14回年次大会発表論文集 Pages: 1105-1108
• [Journal Article] A Multimodal Type Logical Grammar Analysis of Japanese : Word Order and Quantifier Scope (2008)
  • Author(s): Rui Otake and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence : JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops(Ken Satoh, et.al.(eds.)) Springer Verlag Pages: 135-148
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Topic/Subject Co-reference in the Hierarchy of Japanese Complex Sentences (2008)
  • Author(s): Alastair Butler, Chidori Nakamura and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics(22nd Annual Conference of the JSAI) Pages: 1-13
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Multiple Subject Constructions in Japanese : A Dynamic Syntax Account (2008)
  • Author(s): Hiroaki Nakamura, Kei Yoshimoto, Yoshiki Mori and Masahiro Kobayashi
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics(22nd Annual Conference of the JSAI) Pages: 14-30
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Hierarchy-based Interpretation of Tense in Japanese Complex Sentences (2008)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Chidori Nakamura and Alastair Butler
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of International Congress of Linguists 18 Vol.2 Pages: 332-333
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] A Decay Effect in Real-time Sentence Processing (2008)
  • Author(s): Kei Takahashi, Satoru Yokoyama, Toshimune Kambara, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference of Cognitive Science Pages: 218-221
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 「文理解における脳内情報抽出メカニズムの解明」電子情報通信学会技術研究報告 (2008)
  • Author(s): 高橋慶・横山悟・神原利宗・吉本啓・川島隆太
  • Journal Title: 思考と言語 TL2008-12-35 TL2008-14 Pages: 11-15
• [Journal Article] Bedeutungserweiterungen und aspektuelle/temporale Eigenschaften von temporalen Subjunktoren (2008)
  • Author(s): Yusuke Taka and Yoshiki Mori
  • Journal Title: Neue Beitrage zur Germanistik 7 : 1
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Thematic Difficulty Causes Processing Cost for Sentence Comprehension (2007)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Masatoshi Koizumi, Jungho Kim, Noriaki Yusa, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference 2007 Pages: 915
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Working Memory System as a Sentence Processor in the Human Brain (2007)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Kei Takahashi, Toshimune Kambara, Tadao Miyamoto, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会思考と言語研究会(TL)7月研究会
• [Journal Article] 日本語の脳内における統語処理と語彙意味処理のfMRI研究 (2007)
  • Author(s): 神原利宗・横山悟・生田奈穂・ジョンヒョンジョン・高橋慶・関口敦・宮本正夫・高橋大厚・小泉政利・吉本啓・堀江薫・佐藤滋・川島隆太
  • Journal Title: 日本認知科学会第24回大会発表論文集(日本認知科学会) Pages: 160-165
• [Journal Article] Transition and Parsing State and Incrementality in Dynamic Syntax (2007)
  • Author(s): Masahiro Kobayashi and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: The 21st Pacific Asia Conference on Language, Information and Computation(PACLIC21): Proceedings(Hee-Rahk Chae, et.al.(eds.)) Pages: 249-258
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 外国語学習者の言語能力評価における脳機能データの応用 (2007)
  • Author(s): 横山悟・吉本啓・川島隆太
  • Journal Title: 電子情報通信学会思考と言語研究会(TL)11月研究会 Pages: 37-40
• [Journal Article] Processing of Information Structure and Floating Quantifiers in Japanese (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto, Masahiro Kobayashi, Hiroaki Nakamura and Yoshiki Mori
  • Journal Title: New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence : Joint JSAI 2005 Workshop Post-Proceedings(Takashi Washio, et.al.(eds.)) Springer Verlag Pages: 103-110
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Syntactic Underspecification in a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto and Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: The Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Cognitive Science Vancouver Pages: 223-224
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 修辞関係による名詞句の指示対象の推論に関する研究 (2006)
  • Author(s): 大竹塁・吉本啓
  • Journal Title: 情報処理学会研究報告 2006-NL-174
• [Journal Article] 語順効果における、作業記憶に基づく文処理モデル (2006)
  • Author(s): 高橋慶・吉本啓
  • Journal Title: 情報処理学会研究報告 2006-NL-174
• [Journal Article] 事象関連電位で見る名詞と助数詞の照合プロセス (2006)
  • Author(s): 酒井由美・岩田一樹・ホルヘ-リエラ・万小紅・横山悟・下田由輝・川島隆太・吉本啓・小泉政利
  • Journal Title: 認知科学 13 : 3 Pages: 443-454
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Towards a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Sentence Processing (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto and Shigeru Sato
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of PACLIC 20 Pages: 21-27
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] An Activation-based Sentence Processing Model of English (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Takahashi, Kiyoshi Ishikawa and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: Proceedings of PACLIC 20 Pages: 303-310
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Multiply Quantified Internally Headed Relative Clause in Japanese : A Skolem Term Based Approach (2006)
  • Author(s): Rui Otake and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Journal Title: International Journal of Computational Linguistics and Chinese Language Processing 11 : 4 Pages: 333-348
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Brain Activation during the Course of Sentence Comprehension (2006)
  • Author(s): Naho Ikuta, et.al.
  • Journal Title: Brain and Language 97 Pages: 154-161
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 主観性と文法化 : テクスト言語学の可能性 (2006)
  • Author(s): 森芳樹
  • Journal Title: 日本認知言語学会第6回大会論文集 Pages: 523
• [Journal Article] 時制の主観性とコンテクスト依存性 (2006)
  • Author(s): 森芳樹
  • Journal Title: 日本認知言語学会第6回大会論文集 Pages: 536-539
• [Presentation] ワークショップ「節の構造と意味 : Left Peripheryをめぐって」 (2009)
  • Author(s): 森芳樹
  • Organizer: 「さらにV2(Verb Second)の『意味』について」広島大学総合科学研究科言語と情報研究プロジェクト第22回公開セミナー
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-28
• [Presentation] ワークショップ「節の構造と意味 : Left Peripheryをめぐって」 (2009)
  • Author(s): 森芳樹・高裕輔
  • Organizer: 「目的節の日独対照研究」広島大学総合科学研究科言語と情報研究プロジェクト第22回公開セミナー
  • Place of Presentation: 広島大学
  • Year and Date: 2009-02-28
• [Presentation] HAVE Light for HAVE Holders and HAVE Owners (2009)
  • Author(s): Yuko Kobukata and Yoshiki Mori
  • Organizer: FFF-Workshop "Verbal and Nominal Possession" HHU Dusseldorf.(Research Unit FOR 600 "Functional Concepts and Frames")
  • Place of Presentation: Dusseldorf
  • Year and Date: 2009-01-29
• [Presentation] Right Node Raising構文処理にみられる統語依存情報減衰効果 (2008)
  • Author(s): 高橋慶・横山悟・神原利宗・吉本啓
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第136回発表論文集
  • Place of Presentation: 学習院大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-21
• [Presentation] 文理解を支える下位処理-単語認知と作業記憶- (2008)
  • Author(s): 横山悟・高橋慶・神原利宗・宮本正夫・吉本啓・川島隆太
  • Organizer: 日本言語学会第136回大会発表論文集
  • Place of Presentation: 学習院大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-21
• [Presentation] Neural Efficiency for Sentence Comprehension and Working Memory (2008)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Kei Tkahashi, Toshimune Kambara, Tadao Miyamoto, Jorge Riera, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-18
• [Presentation] Neural Mechanism of Information Retrieval Unique to Sentence Processing (2008)
  • Author(s): Kei Takahashi, Yokoyama Satoru, Toshimune Kambara, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 14th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Melbourne, Australia
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-18
• [Presentation] 統語・意味インターフェースにおけるムードと談話接続 (2008)
  • Author(s): 森芳樹
  • Organizer: 日本独文学会春季大会シンポジウム「SatzstrukturとSatzmodus-構造と意味のインターフェースをめぐって」
  • Place of Presentation: 立教大学
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-14
• [Presentation] Actuality, Factuality, Perfect. The Fifth International Workshop on Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics (2008)
  • Author(s): Yoshiki Mori
  • Organizer: 22nd Annual Conference of the JSAI
  • Place of Presentation: Asahikawa
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-10
• [Presentation] Impact of Causal Implicature on the Subordinate Clause Tense (2008)
  • Author(s): Yoshiki Mori
  • Organizer: DGfS Annual Meeting, AG5 Tense across Languages
  • Place of Presentation: Bamberg, Germany
  • Year and Date: 2008-02-29
• [Presentation] Working Memory System as a Sentence Processor in the Human Brain (2007)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Toshimune Kambara, Tadao Miyamoto, Kei Yoshimoto and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: An International Workshop on Mental Architecture for Processing and Learning of Language
  • Place of Presentation: Hiroshima, Japan
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-14
• [Presentation] Neural Plasticity for Second Language Learning in the Brain : A Longitudinal fMRI Study (2007)
  • Author(s): 横山悟・金情浩・内田信也・バイチェン・遊佐典昭・宮本正夫・吉本啓・堀江薫・佐藤滋・川島隆太
  • Organizer: The Ninth Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society of Language Sciences
  • Place of Presentation: Miyagi Gakuin University
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-07
• [Presentation] Syntactic and Lexical-semantic Processing during Sentence Comprehension in Head-final Language (2007)
  • Author(s): Toshimune Kambara, Satoru Yokoyama, Naho Ikuta, Hyeonjeong Jeong, Kei Takahashi, Atsushi Sekiguchi, Tadao Miyamoto, Daiko Takahashi, Kei Yoshimoto, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-10
• [Presentation] Brain Activation Associated with Reanalysis in Sentence Comprehension : An fMRI Study (2007)
  • Author(s): Naho Ikuta, Satoru Yokoyama, Hyeonjeon Jeong, Motoaki Sugiura, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 13th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Chicago, USA
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-10
• [Presentation] Dynamic Syntax as a Neuro-Cognitive Model of Human Parsing (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: Workshop on Dynamic Syntax : What can the study of head-final languages contribute to the theory
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo University
  • Year and Date: 2006-10-06
• [Presentation] A Memory-based Sentence Processing Model (2006)
  • Author(s): Kei Takahashi and Kei Yoshimoto
  • Organizer: The Fifth International Workshop on Evolutionary Cognitive Sciences "Human Sentence Processing and Production."
  • Place of Presentation: University of Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2006-07-15
• [Presentation] fMRI Evidence for Distinct Neural Substrates for Word Recognition in L1 and L2 (2006)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Jungho Kim, Shin-yaUchida, Hideyuki Okamoto, Chen Bai, Tadao Miyamoto, Kei Yoshimoto, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato and Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Florence, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2006-06-11
• [Presentation] The Second Language Is Processed Independently of the First Language (2006)
  • Author(s): Satoru Yokoyama, Jungho Kim, Shin-yaUchida, Hideyuki Okamoto, Chen Bai, Noriaki Yusa, Tadao Miyamoto, Kei Yoshimoto, Kaoru Horie, Shigeru Sato, Ryuta Kawashima
  • Organizer: 12th Annual Meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping
  • Place of Presentation: Florence, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2006-06-11
• [Book] Logic and Engineering of Natural Language Semantics(Ken Satoh, et al. (Volume Editors))(New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence : JSAI 2007 Conference and Workshops) (2008)
  • Author(s): Kei Yoshimoto(Chaper Editor)
  • Total Pages: 77-241
  • Publisher: Berlin and Heidelberg : Springer
• [Book] Applying Theory and Research to Learning Japanese as a Foreign Language(Masahiko Minami(ed.))(The Acquisition Process of Japanese Case Particles by JSL Learners) (2007)
  • Author(s): Ya-Ling su, Kei Yoshimoto and Shigeru Sato
  • Total Pages: 130-149
  • Publisher: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Press