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Enhanced activations in syntax-related regions for multilinguals while acquiring a new language
In: Sci Rep (2021)
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Merge-Generability as the Key Concept of Human Language: Evidence From Neuroscience
Tanaka, Kyohei; Nakamura, Isso; Ohta, Shinri. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2019
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Dissociating Effects of Scrambling and Topicalization within the Left Frontal and Temporal Language Areas: An fMRI Study in Kaqchikel Maya
Ohta, Shinri; Koizumi, Masatoshi; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2017
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Differential Signatures of Second Language Syntactic Performance and Age on the Structural Properties of the Left Dorsal Pathway
Yamamoto, Kayako; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2017
Abstract: In adult second language (L2) acquisition, individual differences are considerably large even among people with similar experiences. The neural mechanisms underlying this variability would include structural plasticity of language-related pathways. To elucidate such neuroplasticity, we focused on the transitional period of adolescence, which is associated with certain plasticity toward maturation following the sensitive period of language acquisition (≤12 years old). The adolescent brain would thus be influenced by age-dependent factors, as well as performances in L2. Here, we examined individual differences in L2 performances controlling the duration of experience to reveal the differential signatures of performances and age on the plasticity of structural properties in major language-related pathways. We recruited Japanese students at two ages, i.e., junior (age: 13–14) and senior (age: 16–17) high-school students, all of whom started to expose to English at age 12 or 13. We divided them into subgroups, so that either L2 performance [Junior (High)/Senior (Low)] or age [Senior (Low)/Senior (High)] was matched in group comparisons; the duration of L2 experience was also controlled between the Senior (Low) and Senior (High) groups. We then examined the thickness and fractional anisotropy (FA) of the dorsal and ventral pathways, i.e., the arcuate fasciculus (Arcuate) and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), respectively, using semi-automatic methods for selecting regions without branches. Regarding FA in the left Arcuate, the Senior (High) group showed significantly higher FA than the other two groups, indicating performance-related group differences. Further, FA in the left Arcuate was selectively correlated with the accuracy of a syntactic task. Regarding the thickness of the left Arcuate, the Senior (High) and Senior (Low) groups showed significantly larger thickness than the Junior (High) group, indicating age-related group differences. These differential performance-related and age-related signatures were evident on the left Arcuate alone, in contrast to the right Arcuate that showed only mild differences in thickness, and to the bilateral IFOF that lacked either signature. Our results suggest that the left dorsal pathway continued to develop to adolescence, and that performance differences in a syntactic task can be predicted by its FA, independent of age and the duration of experience.
Keyword: Psychology
URL: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00829
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440582/
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Activation changes of the left inferior frontal gyrus for the factors of construction and scrambling in a sentence
TANAKA, Kyohei; OHTA, Shinri; KINNO, Ryuta. - : The Japan Academy, 2017
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The Dorsal Rather than Ventral Pathway Better Reflects Individual Syntactic Abilities in Second Language
Yamamoto, Kayako; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2016
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Subliminal enhancement of predictive effects during syntactic processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus: an MEG study
Iijima, Kazuki; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2014
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Neural Mechanisms Underlying the Computation of Hierarchical Tree Structures in Mathematics
Nakai, Tomoya; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Public Library of Science, 2014
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Functional and anatomical correlates of word-, sentence-, and discourse-level integration in sign language
Inubushi, Tomoo; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2013
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Syntactic Computation in the Human Brain: The Degree of Merger as a Key Factor
Ohta, Shinri; Fukui, Naoki; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Public Library of Science, 2013
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Computational principles of syntax in the regions specialized for language: integrating theoretical linguistics and functional neuroimaging
Ohta, Shinri; Fukui, Naoki; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Frontiers Media S.A., 2013
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Left Inferior Frontal Activations Depending on the Canonicity Determined by the Argument Structures of Ditransitive Sentences: An MEG Study
Inubushi, Tomoo; Iijima, Kazuki; Koizumi, Masatoshi. - : Public Library of Science, 2012
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Agrammatic comprehension caused by a glioma in the left frontal cortex
In: Brain & language. - Orlando, Fla. [u.a.] : Elsevier 110 (2009) 2, 71-80
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Syntax in a native language still continues to develop in adults: honorification judgment in Japanese
In: Brain & language. - Orlando, Fla. [u.a.] : Elsevier 107 (2008) 1, 81-89
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Sign and speech: amodal commonality in left hemisphere dominance for comprehension of sentences
In: Brain. - Oxford : Oxford Univ. Press 128 (2005) 6, 1407-1417
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Language acquisition and brain development
In: Science. - Washington, DC : AAAS, American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 310 (2005) 5749, 815-819
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Sign and speech: amodal commonality in left hemisphere dominance for comprehension of sentences
Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.; Tatsuno, Yoshinori; Suzuki, Kei. - : Oxford University Press, 2005
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Sign and speech: amodal commonality in left hemisphere dominance for comprehension of sentences
Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.; Tatsuno, Yoshinori; Suzuki, Kei. - : Oxford University Press, 2005
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Language-Related Activations in the Left Prefrontal Regions Are Differentially Modulated by Age, Proficiency, and Task Demands
Tatsuno, Yoshinori; Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.. - : Society for Neuroscience, 2005
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Correlated Functional Changes of the Prefrontal Cortex in Twins Induced by Classroom Education of Second Language
Sakai, Kuniyoshi L.; Miura, Kunihiko; Narafu, Nobuko. - : Oxford University Press, 2004
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