2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A study on language function from the point of view of the difference of cues used at aphasia therapy
| Project/Area Number |
21800079
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Rehabilitation science/Welfare engineering
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| Research Institution | Kinki University |
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Principal Investigator |
OKADA Rieko Kinki University, 医学部, 博士研究員 (60550910)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2010
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| Keywords | 失語症訓練 / ヒント効果 / fMRI |
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| Research Abstract |
We showed the specific brain areas related with three types of verbal fluency tasks, respectively. Subjects were normal native Japanese speakers. We presumed that a subject would retrieve analog words for semantic verbal fluency tasks and sentence-complete tasks, respectively. However, comparing between results of these two tasks, the latter more activated the right hemisphere. From this result, we showed that the right hemisphere activity was important to lead aphasia patients to sentence-level performance.
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