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Neural Evidence of Cross-domain Structural Interaction between Language and Arithmetic.


ABSTRACT: The presence of a shared neural system for the syntactic processing in language and arithmetic is controversial. Recent behavioral studies reported a cross-domain structural priming between language and arithmetic. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined whether the neural activation reflects the structural interaction between language and arithmetic. We prepared sentences and arithmetic expressions (A-expressions) with same and different syntactic structures and presented structurally congruent/incongruent pairs consecutively. By directly comparing activations in the congruent and incongruent conditions, we observed significant repetition suppression effect in the regions including the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus, i.e., neural activation with an A-expression decreased after a sentence with the same syntactic structure (and vice versa). The results strongly support the idea that arithmetic and language share the neural basis for processing syntactic structures.

SUBMITTER: Nakai T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6110712 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Neural Evidence of Cross-domain Structural Interaction between Language and Arithmetic.

Nakai Tomoya T   Okanoya Kazuo K  

Scientific reports 20180827 1


The presence of a shared neural system for the syntactic processing in language and arithmetic is controversial. Recent behavioral studies reported a cross-domain structural priming between language and arithmetic. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we examined whether the neural activation reflects the structural interaction between language and arithmetic. We prepared sentences and arithmetic expressions (A-expressions) with same and different syntactic structures and presented struc  ...[more]

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