Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing
Resembling letter-by-letter translation, Morse code can be used to investigate various linguistic components by slowing down the cognitive process of language decoding. Using fMRI and Morse code, we investigated patterns of brain activation associated with decoding three-letter words or non-words an...
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| author | Frederick Benjamin Junker Frederick Benjamin Junker Lara Schlaffke Christian Bellebaum Marta Ghio Stefanie Brühl Stefanie Brühl Stefanie Brühl Nikolai Axmacher Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke |
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| description | Resembling letter-by-letter translation, Morse code can be used to investigate various linguistic components by slowing down the cognitive process of language decoding. Using fMRI and Morse code, we investigated patterns of brain activation associated with decoding three-letter words or non-words and making a lexical decision. Our data suggest that early sublexical processing is associated with activation in brain regions that are involved in sound-patterns to phoneme conversion (inferior parietal lobule), phonological output buffer (inferior frontal cortex: pars opercularis) as well as phonological and semantic top-down predictions (inferior frontal cortex: pars triangularis). In addition, later lexico-semantic processing of meaningful stimuli is associated with activation of the phonological lexicon (angular gyrus) and the semantic system (default mode network). Overall, our data indicate that sublexical and lexico-semantic analyses comprise two cognitive processes that rely on neighboring networks in the left frontal cortex and parietal lobule. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-b11650f15f3f44e4b981c7b59a8fe59b2022-12-22T00:59:03ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience1662-51372020-10-011410.3389/fnsys.2020.522384522384Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus ProcessingFrederick Benjamin Junker0Frederick Benjamin Junker1Lara Schlaffke2Christian Bellebaum3Marta Ghio4Stefanie Brühl5Stefanie Brühl6Stefanie Brühl7Nikolai Axmacher8Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke9Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke10Department of Neuropsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, GermanyDepartment for Neurology, Professional Association Berufsgenossenschaft-University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, GermanyInstitute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, GermanyInstitute of Experimental Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, GermanySt. Mauritius Therapy Clinic, Meerbusch, GermanyDepartment of Neurology, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen University, Aachen, GermanyDivision of Neuroscience and Experimental Psychology, University of Manchester, Manchester, United KingdomDepartment of Neuropsychology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, GermanyDepartment of Clinical Neuroscience and Medical Psychology, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, GermanySt. Mauritius Therapy Clinic, Meerbusch, GermanyResembling letter-by-letter translation, Morse code can be used to investigate various linguistic components by slowing down the cognitive process of language decoding. Using fMRI and Morse code, we investigated patterns of brain activation associated with decoding three-letter words or non-words and making a lexical decision. Our data suggest that early sublexical processing is associated with activation in brain regions that are involved in sound-patterns to phoneme conversion (inferior parietal lobule), phonological output buffer (inferior frontal cortex: pars opercularis) as well as phonological and semantic top-down predictions (inferior frontal cortex: pars triangularis). In addition, later lexico-semantic processing of meaningful stimuli is associated with activation of the phonological lexicon (angular gyrus) and the semantic system (default mode network). Overall, our data indicate that sublexical and lexico-semantic analyses comprise two cognitive processes that rely on neighboring networks in the left frontal cortex and parietal lobule.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2020.522384/fullsublexical processinglexico-semantic processingphonological lexiconsemantic systemlexicalitydefault mode network |
| spellingShingle | Frederick Benjamin Junker Frederick Benjamin Junker Lara Schlaffke Christian Bellebaum Marta Ghio Stefanie Brühl Stefanie Brühl Stefanie Brühl Nikolai Axmacher Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Tobias Schmidt-Wilcke Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience sublexical processing lexico-semantic processing phonological lexicon semantic system lexicality default mode network |
| title | Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing |
| title_full | Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing |
| title_fullStr | Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing |
| title_full_unstemmed | Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing |
| title_short | Transition From Sublexical to Lexico-Semantic Stimulus Processing |
| title_sort | transition from sublexical to lexico semantic stimulus processing |
| topic | sublexical processing lexico-semantic processing phonological lexicon semantic system lexicality default mode network |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2020.522384/full |
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