Broca's area in the human brain is involved in the selection of grammatical gender for language production: evidence from event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging Export

@article{Heimetal02, abstract = {The neural correlates of the selection of grammatical gender during overt picture naming were investigated by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging in the left hemisphere. Relative to simply naming a picture, the production of the definite determiner of the picture name (requiring gender selection) resulted exclusively in pronounced activation of a single region in the superior portion of Broca's area. This activation was not present in contrasts reflecting lexical access (naming a picture vs. saying ” jaja” to a smiley) or articulation (saying ” jaja” vs. rest). Rather, lexical access activated other inferior frontal regions, insula, fusiform and inferior temporal gyrus. Articulation involved insula, Rolandic operculum, motor and premotor cortex and superior temporal gyrus. The results are discussed with respect to data from studies investigating gender processing during language comprehension.}, author = {Heim, S. and Opitz, B. and Friederici, A. D.}, citeulike-article-id = {5145427}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00494-9}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0304-3940(02)00494-9}, day = {9}, doi = {10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00494-9}, issn = {03043940}, journal = {Neuroscience Letters}, keywords = {acoustics, broca, cognition, fmri, language, lexical-access, production}, month = {August}, number = {2}, pages = {101--104}, posted-at = {2009-07-14 10:54:28}, priority = {0}, title = {Broca's area in the human brain is involved in the selection of grammatical gender for language production: evidence from event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00494-9}, volume = {328}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - Heimetal02 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5145427 N2 - The neural correlates of the selection of grammatical gender during overt picture naming were investigated by event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging in the left hemisphere. Relative to simply naming a picture, the production of the definite determiner of the picture name (requiring gender selection) resulted exclusively in pronounced activation of a single region in the superior portion of Broca's area. This activation was not present in contrasts reflecting lexical access (naming a picture vs. saying “jaja” to a smiley) or articulation (saying “jaja” vs. rest). Rather, lexical access activated other inferior frontal regions, insula, fusiform and inferior temporal gyrus. Articulation involved insula, Rolandic operculum, motor and premotor cortex and superior temporal gyrus. The results are discussed with respect to data from studies investigating gender processing during language comprehension. IS - 2 JF - Neuroscience Letters SN - 03043940 EP - 104 TI - Broca's area in the human brain is involved in the selection of grammatical gender for language production: evidence from event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging VL - 328 SP - 101 KW - acoustics KW - broca KW - cognition KW - fmri KW - language KW - lexical-access KW - production AU - Heim, S AU - Opitz, B AU - Friederici, AD PY - 2002/08/09/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0304-3940(02)00494-9 ER -