Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved]
Background: Relative blood flow in the two middle cerebral arteries can be measured using functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) to give an index of lateralisation as participants perform a specific task. Language laterality has mostly been studied with fTCD using a word generation task,...
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| description | Background: Relative blood flow in the two middle cerebral arteries can be measured using functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) to give an index of lateralisation as participants perform a specific task. Language laterality has mostly been studied with fTCD using a word generation task, but it is not clear whether this is optimal. Methods: Using fTCD, we evaluated a sentence generation task that has shown good reliability and strong left lateralisation in fMRI. We interleaved trials of word generation, sentence generation and list generation and assessed agreement of these tasks in 31 participants (29 right-handers). Results: Although word generation and sentence generation both gave robust left-lateralisation, Bland-Altman analysis showed that these two methods were not equivalent. The comparison list generation task was not systematically lateralised, but nevertheless laterality indices (LIs) from this task were significantly correlated with the other two tasks. Subtracting list generation LI from sentence generation LI did not affect the strength of the laterality index. Conclusions: This was a pre-registered methodological study designed to explore novel approaches to optimising measurement of language lateralisation using fTCD. It confirmed that sentence generation gives robust left lateralisation in most people, but is not equivalent to the classic word generation task. Although list generation does not show left-lateralisation at the group level, the LI on this task was correlated with left-lateralised tasks. This suggests that word and sentence generation involve adding a constant directional bias to an underlying continuum of laterality that is reliable in individuals but not biased in either direction. In future research we suggest that consistency of laterality across tasks might have more functional significance than strength or direction of laterality on any one task. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-37b899d8c82446528a1845e412a4f10d2022-12-22T01:54:04ZengWellcomeWellcome Open Research2398-502X2018-10-01310.12688/wellcomeopenres.14720.216211Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved]Zoe V.J. Woodhead0Holly A. Rutherford1Dorothy V.M. Bishop2Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKDepartment of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UKBackground: Relative blood flow in the two middle cerebral arteries can be measured using functional transcranial Doppler sonography (fTCD) to give an index of lateralisation as participants perform a specific task. Language laterality has mostly been studied with fTCD using a word generation task, but it is not clear whether this is optimal. Methods: Using fTCD, we evaluated a sentence generation task that has shown good reliability and strong left lateralisation in fMRI. We interleaved trials of word generation, sentence generation and list generation and assessed agreement of these tasks in 31 participants (29 right-handers). Results: Although word generation and sentence generation both gave robust left-lateralisation, Bland-Altman analysis showed that these two methods were not equivalent. The comparison list generation task was not systematically lateralised, but nevertheless laterality indices (LIs) from this task were significantly correlated with the other two tasks. Subtracting list generation LI from sentence generation LI did not affect the strength of the laterality index. Conclusions: This was a pre-registered methodological study designed to explore novel approaches to optimising measurement of language lateralisation using fTCD. It confirmed that sentence generation gives robust left lateralisation in most people, but is not equivalent to the classic word generation task. Although list generation does not show left-lateralisation at the group level, the LI on this task was correlated with left-lateralised tasks. This suggests that word and sentence generation involve adding a constant directional bias to an underlying continuum of laterality that is reliable in individuals but not biased in either direction. In future research we suggest that consistency of laterality across tasks might have more functional significance than strength or direction of laterality on any one task.https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/3-104/v2 |
| spellingShingle | Zoe V.J. Woodhead Holly A. Rutherford Dorothy V.M. Bishop Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] Wellcome Open Research |
| title | Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] |
| title_full | Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] |
| title_fullStr | Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] |
| title_full_unstemmed | Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] |
| title_short | Measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound: a comparison of different tasks [version 2; referees: 2 approved] |
| title_sort | measurement of language laterality using functional transcranial doppler ultrasound a comparison of different tasks version 2 referees 2 approved |
| url | https://wellcomeopenresearch.org/articles/3-104/v2 |
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