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Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network

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Schroen,  Joelle       
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Gunter,  Thomas C.       
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Numssen,  Ole       
Methods and Development Group Brain Networks, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Hartwigsen,  Gesa       
Lise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;
Cognitive and Biological Psychology, Wilhelm Wundt Institute for Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany;

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Friederici,  Angela D.       
Department Neuropsychology, MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Max Planck Society;

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Schroen, J., Gunter, T. C., Numssen, O., Kroczek, L. O. H., Hartwigsen, G., & Friederici, A. D. (2023). Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120(47): e2306279120. doi:10.1073/pnas.2306279120.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000D-F10D-5
Abstract
Recent neurobiological models on language suggest that auditory sentence comprehension is supported by a coordinated temporal interplay within a left-dominant brain network, including the posterior inferior frontal gyrus (pIFG), posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus (pSTG/STS), and angular gyrus (AG). Here, we probed the timing and causal relevance of the interplay between these regions by means of concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG). Our TMS-EEG experiments reveal region- and time-specific causal evidence for a bidirectional information flow from left pSTG/STS to left pIFG and back during auditory sentence processing. Adapting a condition-and-perturb approach, our findings further suggest that the left pSTG/STS can be supported by the left AG in a state-dependent manner.