An event-related fNIRS investigation of Japanese word order

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作者：

Yukika Nishimura

Koji Sugisaki

Noriko Hattori

Yasushi Inokuchi

Masayuki Komachi

Yoshihiro Nishimura

Mariko Ogawa

Motohiro Okada

Yuji Okazaki

Waro Taki

Tetsuro Yamamoto

Etsuko Yoshida

Seiki Ayano

机构：

[1] Mie University,Department of Psychiatry, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine

[2] Mie University,Faculty of Humanities, Law and Economics

[3] Shizuoka University,Education Development Center

[4] Suzuka University of Medical Science,Department of Pharmacy

[5] Tokyo Metropolitan Matsuzawa Hospital,Department of Neurosurgery, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine

[6] Mie University,Department of Neurophysiology, Division of Neuroscience, Graduate School of Medicine

[7] Mie University,undefined

来源：

Experimental Brain Research | 2010年 / 202卷

关键词：

Word order; Scrambling; Language processing; Frontal lobe; Near-infrared spectroscopy; Event-related design;

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摘要：

Japanese is a free word-order language, and allows both subject–object–verb (SOV) and object–subject–verb (OSV) orders. Our previous study using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) imaging revealed that OSV sentences induce more activation in the left frontal lobe than SOV sentences. The present study develops our previous experiment: (1) by adopting an event-related design, and (2) by using sentences involving the adverb naze ‘why’, which plays a prominent role in recent linguistic studies. The results of our new experiment indicated that the cerebral activation in OwhySV sentences was significantly larger than that in SwhyOV sentences, in the right anterior prefrontal region, which is consistent with the assumption that OwhySV order is derived from SwhyOV order. We speculate that the activation observed in the anterior prefrontal cortex during the processing of the sentences involving ‘why’ might be due to the processing of higher-order function in the cerebral cortex.

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