Two analytical strategies for an fMRI study on brain activity during sentence processing

Author

Hashimoto, Yosuke ; Nakamura, Kazuhiro ; Ueda, Yukiko ; Uchibori, Asako ; Kinoshita, Toshibumi

Author_Institution

Akita Int. Univ., Akita, Japan

fYear

2012

fDate

20-23 Aug. 2012

Firstpage

1354

Lastpage

1358

Abstract

This research aimed to evaluate two analytical methods - the one sample T-test and the full factorial ANOVA - in order to investigate the brain regions that are responsible for anaphora-processing by fMRI. The full factorial revealed a main effect of anaphora processing for the right supramarginal gyrus while the one sample T-test resulted mainly in the left putamen. Both regions are related to phonological processing; however it is hard to connect the results of previous functional studies to this result. Further multifaceted approaches will contribute this methodological issue.

Keywords

biomedical MRI; brain; cognition; medical image processing; neurophysiology; statistical analysis; anaphora processing; brain activity; brain regions; fMRI; full factorial ANOVA; language processing; left putamen; phonological processing; right supramarginal gyrus; sample T-test; sentence processing; Analysis of variance; Blood vessels; Brain; Educational institutions; Humans; Magnetic resonance imaging; Semantics; fMRI; full factorial; language processing; one sample T-test;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2012 Proceedings of

Conference_Location

Akita

ISSN

pending

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2259-1

Type

conf

Filename

6318658