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Conference Paper: Neural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals

TitleNeural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilinguals
Authors
KeywordsBilingualism
Cerebellum
Chinese-English bilinguals
fMRI
Language
Nouns and verbs
Putamen
Reading
Issue Date2008
PublisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0077-8923&site=1
Citation
Annals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2008, v. 1145, p. 30-40 How to Cite?
AbstractPrevious neuroimaging research indicates that English verbs and nouns are represented in frontal and posterior brain regions, respectively. For Chinese monolinguals, however, nouns and verbs are found to be associated with a wide range of overlapping areas without significant differences in neural signatures. This different pattern of findings led us to ask the question of where nouns and verbs of two different languages are represented in various areas in the brain in Chinese-English bilinguals. In this study, we utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a lexical decision paradigm involving Chinese and English verbs and nouns to address this question. We found that while Chinese nouns and verbs involved activation of common brain areas, the processing of English verbs engaged many more regions than did the processing of English nouns. Specifically, compared to English nouns, English verb presentation was associated with stronger activation of the left putamen and cerebellum, which are responsible for motor function, suggesting the involvement of the motor system in the processing of English verbs. Our findings are consistent with the theory that neural circuits for linguistic dimensions are weighted and modulated by the characteristics of a language. © 2008 New York Academy of Sciences.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/159069
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2023 Impact Factor: 4.1
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 1.416
ISI Accession Number ID
Funding AgencyGrant Number
Hong Kong Research Grants CouncilHKU 7275/03H
University of Hong Kong200607176135
Ministry of Science and Technology of China2005CB522802
Funding Information:

This research was supported by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Grant HKU 7275/03H (to L.H.T), the University of Hong Kong Grant 200607176135 (to A.C.), and a 973 Grant (2005CB522802) from the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (to L.H.T).

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dc.contributor.authorChan, AHDen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLuke, KKen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLi, Pen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYip, Ven_HK
dc.contributor.authorLi, Gen_HK
dc.contributor.authorWeekes, Ben_HK
dc.contributor.authorTan, LHen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-08T09:06:27Z-
dc.date.available2012-08-08T09:06:27Z-
dc.date.issued2008en_HK
dc.identifier.citationAnnals Of The New York Academy Of Sciences, 2008, v. 1145, p. 30-40en_US
dc.identifier.issn0077-8923en_HK
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dc.description.abstractPrevious neuroimaging research indicates that English verbs and nouns are represented in frontal and posterior brain regions, respectively. For Chinese monolinguals, however, nouns and verbs are found to be associated with a wide range of overlapping areas without significant differences in neural signatures. This different pattern of findings led us to ask the question of where nouns and verbs of two different languages are represented in various areas in the brain in Chinese-English bilinguals. In this study, we utilized functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and a lexical decision paradigm involving Chinese and English verbs and nouns to address this question. We found that while Chinese nouns and verbs involved activation of common brain areas, the processing of English verbs engaged many more regions than did the processing of English nouns. Specifically, compared to English nouns, English verb presentation was associated with stronger activation of the left putamen and cerebellum, which are responsible for motor function, suggesting the involvement of the motor system in the processing of English verbs. Our findings are consistent with the theory that neural circuits for linguistic dimensions are weighted and modulated by the characteristics of a language. © 2008 New York Academy of Sciences.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherWiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0077-8923&site=1en_HK
dc.relation.ispartofAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciencesen_HK
dc.subjectBilingualismen_HK
dc.subjectCerebellumen_HK
dc.subjectChinese-English bilingualsen_HK
dc.subjectfMRIen_HK
dc.subjectLanguageen_HK
dc.subjectNouns and verbsen_HK
dc.subjectPutamenen_HK
dc.subjectReadingen_HK
dc.subject.meshAdulten_US
dc.subject.meshBrain - Physiologyen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshMagnetic Resonance Imagingen_US
dc.subject.meshMultilingualismen_US
dc.subject.meshQuestionnairesen_US
dc.titleNeural correlates of nouns and verbs in early bilingualsen_HK
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