Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
SICE Annual Conference (SICE), 2012 Proceedings of
Conference_Location :
Akita
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2259-1
