dc.contributor.author | Willms, Joanna L. | |
dc.contributor.author | Shapiro, Kevin A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Peelen, Marius V. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pajtas, Petra E. | |
dc.contributor.author | Costa, Albert | |
dc.contributor.author | Moo, Lauren R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Caramazza, Alfonso | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-09-22T10:39:44Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Willms, Joanna L., Kevin A. Shapiro, Marius V. Peelen, Petra E. Pajtas, Albert Costa, Lauren R. Moo, and Alfonso Caramazza. 2011. “Language-Invariant Verb Processing Regions in Spanish–English Bilinguals.” NeuroImage 57 (1): 251–61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.021. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1053-8119 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1095-9572 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41384836 | * |
dc.description.abstract | Nouns and verbs are fundamental grammatical building blocks of all languages. Studies of brain-damaged patients and healthy individuals have demonstrated that verb processing can be dissociated from noun processing at a neuroanatomical level. In cases where bilingual patients have a noun or verb deficit, the deficit has been observed in both languages. This suggests that the noun-verb distinction may be based on neural components that are common across languages. Here we investigated the cortical organization of grammatical categories in healthy, early Spanish-English bilinguals using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a morphophonological alternation task. Four regions showed greater activity for verbs than for nouns in both languages: left posterior middle temporal gyrus (LMTG), left middle frontal gyrus (LMFG), pre-supplementary motor area (pre-SMA), and right middle occipital gyrus (RMOG); no regions showed greater activation for nouns. Multi-voxel pattern analysis within verb-specific regions showed indistinguishable activity patterns for English and Spanish, indicating language-invariant bilingual processing. In LMTG and LMFG, patterns were more similar within than across grammatical category, both within and across languages, indicating language-invariant grammatical class information. These results suggest that the neural substrates underlying verb-specific processing are largely independent of language in bilinguals, both at the macroscopic neuroanatomical level and at the level of voxel activity patterns. | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Elsevier | |
dash.license | OAP | |
dc.title | Language-Invariant Verb Processing Regions in Spanish-English Bilinguals | |
dc.type | Journal Article | |
dc.description.version | Accepted Manuscript | |
dc.relation.journal | NeuroImage | |
dash.depositing.author | Caramazza, Alfonso::c81ff36e5d3b388155ee7e7d91ece706::600 | |
dc.date.available | 2019-09-22T10:39:44Z | |
dash.workflow.comments | 1Science Serial ID 71739 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.04.021 | |
dash.source.volume | 57;1 | |
dash.source.page | 251 | |