Neural Correlates of Morphological Decomposition in a Morphologically Rich Language: An fMRI Study

Autor/inn/en	Lehtonen, Minna; Vorobyev, Victor A.; Hugdahl, Kenneth; Tuokkola, Terhi; Laine, Matti
Titel	Neural Correlates of Morphological Decomposition in a Morphologically Rich Language: An fMRI Study
Quelle	In: Brain and Language, 98 (2006) 2, S.182-193 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0093-934X
DOI	10.1016/j.bandl.2006.04.011
Schlagwörter	Language Processing; Finno Ugric Languages; Word Recognition; Neurolinguistics; Diagnostic Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachverarbeitung; Worterkennung; Neurolinguistisches Programmieren; Diagnostic test; Diagnostischer Test
Abstract	By employing visual lexical decision and functional MRI, we studied the neural correlates of morphological decomposition in a highly inflected language (Finnish) where most inflected noun forms elicit a consistent processing cost during word recognition. This behavioral effect could reflect suffix stripping at the visual word form level and/or subsequent meaning integration at the semantic-syntactic level. The first alternative predicts increased activation for inflected vs. monomorphemic words in the left occipitotemporal cortex while the second alternative predicts left inferior frontal gyrus and/or left posterior temporal activation increases. The results show significant activation effects in the latter areas. This provides support for the second alternative, i.e., that the morphological processing cost stems from the semantic-syntactic level. (Author).
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