All Relations between semantics and broca's area

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Edmund T Rolls, Josef P Rauschecker, Gustavo Deco, Chu-Chung Huang, Jianfeng Fen. Auditory cortical connectivity in humans. Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991). 2022-12-27. PMID:36573464. consistent with this being a "what" ventral auditory stream, these sts regions then have effective connectivity to tpoj1, stv, psl, tgv, tgd, and pgi, which are language-related semantic regions connecting to broca's area, especially ba45. 2022-12-27 2023-08-14 human
Marianne Schell, Angela D Friederici, Emiliano Zaccarell. Neural classification maps for distinct word combinations in Broca's area. Frontiers in human neuroscience. vol 16. 2022-11-21. PMID:36405085. our findings provide preliminary answers to the fundamental question of how lexical and grammatical category information interact during simple word combination, with the observation that broca's area is sensitive to the recognition of categorical relationships during combinatory processing, based on different demands placed on syntactic and semantic information. 2022-11-21 2023-08-14 Not clear
Daria Gnedykh, Diana Tsvetova, Nadezhda Mkrtychian, Evgeny Blagovechtchenski, Svetlana Kostromina, Yury Shtyro. Broca's area involvement in abstract and concrete word acquisition: tDCS evidence. Neurobiology of learning and memory. 2022-04-24. PMID:35462028. the results suggest that both anodal and cathodal tdcs of broca's area improves immediate contextual learning of novel vocabulary, predominantly affecting abstract semantics. 2022-04-24 2023-08-13 human
Arturo Tozzi, James F Peters, Andrew A Fingelkurts, Alexander A Fingelkurts, Leonid Perlovsk. Syntax meets semantics during brain logical computations. Progress in biophysics and molecular biology. vol 140. 2019-04-03. PMID:29803722. in a fully reversible process, the syntactic elements embedded in broca's area project into multiple scattered semantic cortical zones. 2019-04-03 2023-08-13 human
Zuo Zhang, Yaoru Sun, Zijian Wan. Representation of action semantics in the motor cortex and Broca's area. Brain and language. vol 179. 2019-01-29. PMID:29501857. furthermore, activation patterns in broca's area were not separable between action verbs and unrelated verbs, suggesting that broca's area does not encode action-specific semantics for verbs. 2019-01-29 2023-08-13 Not clear
Zuo Zhang, Yaoru Sun, Zijian Wan. Representation of action semantics in the motor cortex and Broca's area. Brain and language. vol 179. 2019-01-29. PMID:29501857. previous studies have shown that both reading action words and observing actions engage the motor cortex and broca's area, but it is still controversial whether a somatotopic representation exists for action verbs within the motor cortex and whether broca's area encodes action-specific semantics for verbs. 2019-01-29 2023-08-13 Not clear
Michel Belyk, Steven Brown, Jessica Lim, Sonja A Kot. Convergence of semantics and emotional expression within the IFG pars orbitalis. NeuroImage. vol 156. 2018-04-26. PMID:28400265. a lateral zone, situated immediately ventral to broca's area, was implicated in both semantics and emotion. 2018-04-26 2023-08-13 human
Shannon E MacLean, Lawrence M War. Oscillatory power and functional connectivity in the speech change detection network. Neuropsychologia. vol 89. 2017-05-05. PMID:27378440. moreover, we not only replicated the changes in functional connectivity between orbitofrontal cortex and superior temporal gyrus found in previous experiments, but also found significant increases in synchronization between those regions and regions of the left inferior frontal gyrus (broca's area), which is thought to be involved in the storage and retrieval of phonological and semantic information. 2017-05-05 2023-08-13 Not clear
Ruben Martins, France Simard, Oury Monch. Differences between patterns of brain activity associated with semantics and those linked with phonological processing diminish with age. PloS one. vol 9. issue 6. 2015-10-26. PMID:24972020. our results indicate that while young adults tend to show increased activity in the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, the ventral temporal lobe and the caudate nucleus during semantic decisions and in the posterior broca's area (area 44), the temporal lobe (area 37), the temporoparietal junction (area 40) and the motor cortical regions during phonological decisions, older individuals showed increased activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and motor cortical regions during both semantic and phonological decisions. 2015-10-26 2023-08-13 Not clear
F Simard, L Monetta, A Nagano-Saito, O Monch. A new lexical card-sorting task for studying fronto-striatal contribution to processing language rules. Brain and language. vol 125. issue 3. 2013-10-23. PMID:21925720. semantic decisions activated significantly the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, the fusiform gyrus, the ventral temporal lobe and the caudate nucleus, while phonological decisions produced significant activation in posterior broca's area (area 44), the temporoparietal junction and motor cortical regions. 2013-10-23 2023-08-12 human
Anastasia Ford, Keith M McGregor, Kimberly Case, Bruce Crosson, Keith D Whit. Structural connectivity of Broca's area and medial frontal cortex. NeuroImage. vol 52. issue 4. 2010-12-17. PMID:20488246. previous studies of language organization suggest involvement of anterior broca's area in semantics and posterior broca's area in syntax/phonology. 2010-12-17 2023-08-12 Not clear
Anastasia Ford, Keith M McGregor, Kimberly Case, Bruce Crosson, Keith D Whit. Structural connectivity of Broca's area and medial frontal cortex. NeuroImage. vol 52. issue 4. 2010-12-17. PMID:20488246. given corresponding patterns of functional and structural organization of broca's area, it seems well warranted to investigate carefully how anterior vs. posterior medial frontal cortex differentially affect semantics, syntax and phonology. 2010-12-17 2023-08-12 Not clear
Robin J Schafer, Todd Constabl. Modulation of functional connectivity with the syntactic and semantic demands of a Noun Phrase Formation Task: a possible role for the Default Network. NeuroImage. vol 46. issue 3. 2009-06-24. PMID:19236925. these included bilateral broca's area and left inferior parietal lobe in the syntactic condition and left ba47 and left middle temporal gyrus in the semantic. 2009-06-24 2023-08-12 human
Nelly Mainy, Julien Jung, Monica Baciu, Philippe Kahane, Benjamin Schoendorff, Lorella Minotti, Dominique Hoffmann, Olivier Bertrand, Jean-Philippe Lachau. Cortical dynamics of word recognition. Human brain mapping. vol 29. issue 11. 2008-12-30. PMID:17712785. peaks of gamma-band activations were then observed for word-like stimuli after 400 ms in the anterior and middle portion of the superior temporal gyrus (ba 38 and ba 22 respectively), in the pars triangularis of broca's area for the semantic task (bas 45 and 47), and in the pars opercularis for the phonological task (ba 44). 2008-12-30 2023-08-12 Not clear
Jeremy I Skipper, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Howard C Nusbaum, Steven L Smal. Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system. Brain and language. vol 101. issue 3. 2007-08-29. PMID:17533001. we asked whether the role that broca's area plays in processing speech-associated gestures is consistent with the semantic retrieval/selection account (predicting relatively weak interactions between broca's area and other cortical areas because the meaningful information that speech-associated gestures convey reduces semantic ambiguity and thus reduces the need for semantic retrieval/selection) or the action recognition account (predicting strong interactions between broca's area and other cortical areas because speech-associated gestures are goal-direct actions that are "mirrored"). 2007-08-29 2023-08-12 human
Peter Hagoort, Jos van Berku. Beyond the sentence given. Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences. vol 362. issue 1481. 2007-06-18. PMID:17412680. functional magnetic resonance imaging data that we collected indicate that broca's area plays an important role in semantic unification. 2007-06-18 2023-08-12 Not clear
Jessica DeLeon, Rebecca F Gottesman, Jonathan T Kleinman, Melissa Newhart, Cameron Davis, Jennifer Heidler-Gary, Andrew Lee, Argye E Hilli. Neural regions essential for distinct cognitive processes underlying picture naming. Brain : a journal of neurology. vol 130. issue Pt 5. 2007-05-31. PMID:17337482. discriminant function analysis, using the degree of hypoperfusion in various brodmann's areas--ba 22 (including wernicke's area), ba 44 (part of broca's area), ba 45 (part of broca's area), ba 21 (inferior temporal cortex), ba 37 (posterior, inferior temporal/fusiform gyrus), ba 38 (anterior temporal cortex) and ba 39 (angular gyrus)--as discriminant variables, classified patients on the basis of the primary component of the naming process that was impaired (defined as visual, semantics, modality-independent lexical access, phonological word form, orthographic word form and motor speech by the pattern of performance and types of errors across lexical tasks). 2007-05-31 2023-08-12 Not clear
Sreepadma P Sonty, M-Marsel Mesulam, Sandra Weintraub, Nancy A Johnson, Todd B Parrish, Darren R Gitelma. Altered effective connectivity within the language network in primary progressive aphasia. The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience. vol 27. issue 6. 2007-03-06. PMID:17287508. fmri analysis showed semantic task-specific activations in the left inferior frontal (broca's area) and posterior superior temporal (wernicke's area) regions, in addition to other language regions, in both groups. 2007-03-06 2023-08-12 human
Ned T Sahin, Steven Pinker, Eric Halgre. Abstract grammatical processing of nouns and verbs in Broca's area: evidence from fMRI. Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior. vol 42. issue 4. 2006-08-23. PMID:16881266. the role of broca's area in grammatical computation is unclear, because syntactic processing is often confounded with working memory, articulation, or semantic selection. 2006-08-23 2023-08-12 human
Gordon J Harris, Christopher F Chabris, Jill Clark, Trinity Urban, Itzhak Aharon, Shelley Steele, Lauren McGrath, Karen Condouris, Helen Tager-Flusber. Brain activation during semantic processing in autism spectrum disorders via functional magnetic resonance imaging. Brain and cognition. vol 61. issue 1. 2006-08-03. PMID:16473449. the current study suggests broca's area is a region of abnormal neurodevelopment in asd, which may be linked with semantic and related language deficits frequently observed in asd. 2006-08-03 2023-08-12 Not clear