Word Length Processing via Region to Region Connectivity
user-5f165ac04c775ed682f5819f(2018)
摘要
A previous magnetoencephalography (MEG) study found that many features of stimuli can be decoded around the same time but at different places in the brain, posing the question of how information processing is coordinated among brain regions. We aim to directly relate the processing of information content in one region to the connectivity of that region. We examine whether, during presentation of a word stimulus, the length of the word relates to how strongly the region that best encodes word lengthleft lateraloccipital cortex (LOC-lh)-connects to other regions, at different times. Using representational similarity analysis, we find that changes in strengths of the LOC-lh connectivity network across stimuli correlate significantly with changes in word length. This significant correlation occurs at the very end of the decodability period of word length in LOC-lh between 200− 220ms post stimulus onset. We further investigate whether any individual regions contribute significantly to this correlation. We find that there are only 3 regions which have connectivity strengths with LOC-lh that rank correlate significantly with word length during this time period. All of these regions are located in the left temporal lobe. Two of them–the left temporal pole (also known as anterior temporal lobe) and the left superiortemporal gyrus–have previously been implicated in language processing.
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