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Schlagwörter:
Cognitive neuroscience; fMRI; Language; Spanish; Syntax
Zusammenfassung:
In the current study, nine participants were asked to make gender
decisions for a set of Spanish nouns while being scanned with
functional MRI (fMRI). Words were chosen in which a direct
mapping between ending and gender (‘‘transparent’’ items such as
carro
fem
or casa
masc
) is present and those in which there is not a
direct relationship (‘‘opaque’’ items such as fuente
fem
or arroz
masc
).
Direct comparisons between opaque and transparent words
revealed increased activity in left BA44/45, and BA44/6 as well as
bilateral activation near BA 47/insula and the anterior cingulate
gyrus. These results reveal activity in areas previously found to
be devoted to articulation of the determiner and to morphological
processing. Taken together they support the notion that gender
decisions for opaque items requires deeper and more e¡ortful
processing during the retrieval of lexical and syntactic informa-
tion.
