What ’s the right hemisphere doing? [Guest Post by William Matchin]

< div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > Guest post by William Matchin: < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > What's the right hemisphere doing? < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > This is a question that has been bothering me for about two years, emerging from the results of an fMRI experiment that I performed in the twilight of graduate school, and recently butting into my consciousness again after Greg and I finally published the paper. The paper is called < a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00241/abstract" > “‘Syntactic perturbation’ activates the right IFG, but not Broca’s area or the ATL” < /a > , recently published in < i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;" > Frontiers in Psychology < /i > as part of a special topic on “ < a href="http://journal.frontiersin.org/researchtopic/3624/components-of-the-language-ready-brain" > Components of the Language-Ready Brain < /a > ” edited by Cedric Boeckx and Antonio Benítez-Burraco. The title is a bit of a mouthful, I know. What we showed is that when you’re producing a sentence, if you’re forced to change the structure of the sentence-mid utterance, the right IFG (among other areas) lights up like a Christmas tree. < o:p > < /o:p > < /div > < div class="MsoNormal" > < br / > < /div > < a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WmBMp2wHcTQ/VsOk9ETYWtI/AAAAAAAAGyU/M5gNsa6C4_I/s...

Source: Talking Brains - February 15, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Greg Hickok Source Type: blogs