scholarly journals Processing Noncanonical Sentences in Broca's Region: Reflections of Movement Distance and Type

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 694-702 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michiru Makuuchi ◽  
Yosef Grodzinsky ◽  
Katrin Amunts ◽  
Andrea Santi ◽  
Angela D. Friederici
2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Nagy ◽  
Sonja M. Molfenter ◽  
Melanie Péladeau-Pigeon ◽  
Shauna Stokely ◽  
Catriona M. Steele

Hyoid movement in swallowing is biomechanically linked to closure of the laryngeal vestibule for airway protection and to opening of the upper esophageal sphincter. Studies suggest that the range of hyoid movement is highly variable in the healthy population. However, other aspects of hyoid movement such as velocity remain relatively unexplored. In this study, we analyze data from a sample of 20 healthy young participants (10 male) to determine whether hyoid movement distance, duration, velocity, and peak velocity vary systematically with increases in thin liquid bolus volume from 5 to 20 mL. The temporal correspondence between peak hyoid velocity and laryngeal vestibule closure was also examined. The results show that maximum hyoid position and peak velocity increase significantly for 20 mL bolus volumes compared to smaller volumes, and that the timing of peak velocity is closely linked to achieving laryngeal vestibule closure. This suggests that generating hyoid movements with increased power is a strategy for handling larger volumes.


2014 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. S145
Author(s):  
R. Chieffo ◽  
F. Ferrari ◽  
P. Battista ◽  
E. Houdayer ◽  
A. Nuara ◽  
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2000 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 273-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ferdinand Binkofski ◽  
Katrin Amunts ◽  
Klaus Martin Stephan ◽  
Stefan Posse ◽  
Thorsten Schormann ◽  
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Author(s):  
Yosef Grodzinsky

AbstractThe prospects of a cognitive neuroscience of syntax are considered with respect to functional neuroanatomy of two seemingly independent systems: Working Memory and syntactic representation and processing. It is proposed that these two systems are more closely related than previously supposed. In particular, it is claimed that a sentence with anaphoric dependencies involves several Working Memories, each entrusted with a different linguistic function. Components of Working Memory reside in the Left Inferior Frontal Gyrus, which is associated with Broca’s region. When lesioned, this area manifests comprehension disruptions in the ability to analyze intra-sentential dependencies, suggesting that Working Memory spans over syntactic computations. The unification of considerations regarding Working Memory with a purely syntactic approach to Broca’s regions leads to the conclusion that mechanisms that compute transformations—and no other syntactic relations—reside in this area.


Cortex ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 118 ◽  
pp. 132-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Palomero-Gallagher ◽  
Karl Zilles
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