GK-Workshop: Broca's area and speech perception

14.12.2005
09:00-12:30 Session 1: Dr. Ina Bornkessel
(Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
"Linguistic prominence, sequential precedence and the pars opercularis"
[PDFs]
14:00-17:30 Session 2: Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky
(McGill University, Montreal)
"The Passive Puzzle in Broca's Region"
[PDFs]
15.12.2005
09:00-12:30 Session 3: Prof. David Caplan
(Harvard Medical School, Boston)
"Task and Subject Effects on BOLD signal associated with syntactic comprehension"
[PDFs]
14:00-17:30 Session 4: Prof. Sharon Thompson-Schill
(University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
"Tuning the Language Organ: A New Perspective on the Role of Broca's Area in Language Processing"
[PDFs]

References for the individual sessions

Dr. Ina Bornkessel: "Linguistic prominence, sequential precedence and the pars opercularis"

Dogil, G., Freese, I., Haider, H., Röhm, D., & Wokurek, W. (2004).
Where and how does grammatically geared processing take place - and
why is Broca's area often involved. A coordinated fMRI/ERBP study of
language processing. Brain and Language, 89, 337-345.


Dapretto, M. & Bookheimer, S.Y. (1999). Form and Content: Dissociating
syntax and semantics in sentence comprehension. Neuron, 24, 427-432.


Embick, D., Marants, A., Miyashita, Y., O'Neil, W., & Sakai, K.L.
(2000). A syntactic specialization for Broca's area. PNAS, 97,
6150-6154.


Fiebach, C.J., Vos, S.H., & Friederici, A.D. (2004). Neural correlates
of syntactic ambiguity in sentence comprehension for low and high span
readers. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 16, 1562-1575.


Meyer, M., Steinhauer, K., Alter, K., Friederici, A.D., & von Cramon,
D.Y. (2004). Brain activity varies with modulation of dynamic pitch
variance in sentence melody. Brain and Language, 89, 277-289.


Röder, B., Stock, O., Neville, H., Bien, S., & Rösler, F. (2002).
Brain activation modulated by the comprehension of normal pseudo-word
sentences of different processing demands: A functional Magnetic
Resonance Imaging Study. NeuroImage, 15, 1003-1014.



Prof. Yosef Grodzinsky: "The Passive Puzzle in Broca's Region"

Zurif, E.B. (1995). Brain regions of relevance to syntactic processing. Book Chapter, 381-397. Grodzinsky, Y. (in press). A blueprint for a brain map of syntax. In: Grodzinsky, Y. & Amunts, K. (eds.): Broca's Region. New York: Oxford University Press. Section 3, 4-16. (only the content of these 12 pages from Section 3 should be presented - to be done perhaps by someone who has some linguistics) Shapiro, L.P., Swinney, D.A., & Borsky, S. (1998). On-line examination of language performance in normal and neurologically-impaired adults. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 7, 49-60. Ben-Shachar, M., Hendler, T., Kahn, I., Ben-Bashat, D., & Grodzinsky, Y. (2003). The neural reality of syntactic transformations: Evidence from functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Psychological Science, 14, 433-440. McMillan, C.T., Clark, R., Moore, P., Devita, C., & Grossman, M. (2005). Neural basis for generalized quantifier comprehension. Neuropsychologia, 43, 1729-1737. Noppeney, U. & Price, C.J. (2004). An fMRI study of syntactic adaptation. Journal of Cognitive Neuroschience, 16, 702-713.

Prof. David Caplan: "Task and Subject Effects on BOLD signal associated with syntactic comprehension"

Task effects: Caplan, D., Alpert, N., Waters, G., & Olivieri, A. (2000). Activation of Broca's area by syntactic processing unter conditions of condurent articulation. Human Brain Mapping, 9, 65-71. Caplan, D., Vijayan, S., Kuperberg, G., West, C., Waters, G., Greve, D., & Dale, A.M. (2001). Vascular responses to syntactic processing: Event-related fMRI study of relative clauses. Human Brain Mapping, 15, 26-38. Caplan, D., Chen, E., & Waters, G. (under review:a). Syntactic effects on BOLD signal associated with comprehension and determination of plausibility of sentences with relative clauses. Caplan, D., Chen, E., & Waters, G. (unter review:b). Syntactic effects on BOLD signal responses to comprehension and verification of sentence meaning. Subject factors: Caplan, D., Waters, G., & Alpert, N. (2003). Effects of age and speed of processing on rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension. Human Brain Mapping, 19, 112-131. Waters, G., Caplan, D., Alpert, N., & Stanczak, L. (2003). Individual differences in rCBF correlates of syntactic processing in sentence comprehension: Effects of working memory and speed of processing. NeuroImage, 19, 101-112.

Prof. Sharon Thompson-Schill: "Tuning the Language Organ: A New Perspective on the Role of Broca's Area in Language Processing"

Novick, J.M., Trueswell, J.C., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Cognitive control and parsing: Re-examining the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 263-281. Kan, I.P., Kable, J.W., Van Scoyoc, A., Chatterjee, A., & Thompson-Schill, S.L. (in press). Fractionating the left frontal response to tools: Dissociable effects of selection and tools. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. Thompson-Schill, S.L., D'Esposito, M., & Kan, I.P. (1999). Effects of repetition and competition on prefrontal activity during word generation. Neuron, 23, 513-522. Tyler, L.K., Bright, P., Fletcher, P., & Stamatakis, E.A. (2004). Neural processing of nouns and verbs: The role of inflectional morphology. Neuropsychologia, 42, 512-523. Badre, D., Poldrack, R.A., Paré-Blagoev, E.J., Insler, R.Z., & Wagner, A.D. (2005). Dissociable controlled retrieval and generalized selection mechanisms in ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. Hamilton, A.C. & Martin, R.C. (2005). Dissociations among tasks involving inhibition: A single-case study. Cognitive, Affective, Behavioral Neuroscience, 5, 1-13. Background for this session: Thompson-Schill, S.L. (2005). Dissecting the language organ: A new look at the role of Broca's area in language processing. In: Cutler, A. (Ed.), Twenty-first Century Psycholinguistics: Four Cornerstones. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 173-189. (background for the talk of Sharon Thompson-Schill) Thompson-Schill, S.L., Bedny, M., & Goldberg, R.F. (2005). The frontal lobes and the regulation of mental activity. Current Opinions in Neurobiology, 15, 219-224. (background for the talk of Sharon Thompson-Schill)