2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The cortical mechanisms of Japanese sentence processing
| Project/Area Number |
20820006
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (Start-up)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University |
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Principal Investigator |
KIM Jungho Tohoku University, 大学院・文学研究科, 助教 (70513852)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2009
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| Keywords | 文処理 / かき混ぜ語順文 / 心理言語学 / 認知脳科学 |
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| Research Abstract |
Using fMRI, we investigated the effects of scrambling on cortical activation by directly comparing the brain regions involved in the processing of Japanese transitive sentences with canonical and scrambled word order. The result showed more activation at the L.IFG and the L.DPFC during the comprehension of scrambled sentences than that of canonical sentences.
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