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Irene P. Kan, Joseph W. Kable, Amanda Van Scoyoc, Anjan Chatterjee, Sharon L. Thompson-Schill.

Fractionating the Left Frontal Response to Tools: Dissociable Effects of Motor Experience and Lexical Competition

fMRIDC Accession Number: 2-2005-119FM
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2006 Feb ;18(2): p.267-277
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PubMed ID: 16494686 (off-site link)

Study Meta-Data

A number of theories about the evolution of language posit a close (and perhaps causal) relationship between tool use and speech. Consistent with this idea, neuroimaging studies have found that tool knowledge retrieval activates not only a region of the left premotor cortex involved in hand action, but also an adjacent region that is typically described as a language center. We examined whether this pattern of activation is best described as the result of a single process, related to both action and language, or the result of two independent processes. We identified two distinct neural components that jointly contribute to this response: a posterior region centered in the premotor cortex, which responds to motor knowledge retrieval, and an anterior region centered in the left frontal operculum, which responds to lexical competition. Crucial to the interpretation of the premotor response, individual variation in motor experience was highly correlated with the magnitude of the response in the premotor cortex, but not in the prefrontal cortex.

Supplemental Information

Language: English
Country: United States
Magnetic Field Strength: 3 Tesla
Scanner Manufacturer: Siemens
Subjects: 16
Age Range: 18-25 years
Functional Runs: 3
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