Neural networks for sentence comprehension and production: An ALE-based meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies.

ABSTRACT: Comprehending and producing sentences is a complex endeavor requiring the coordinated activity of multiple brain regions. We examined three issues related to the brain networks underlying sentence comprehension and production in healthy individuals: First, which regions are recruited for sentence comprehension and sentence production? Second, are there differences for auditory sentence comprehension vs. visual sentence comprehension? Third, which regions are specifically recruited for the comprehension of syntactically complex sentences? Results from activation likelihood estimation (ALE) analyses (from 45 studies) implicated a sentence comprehension network occupying bilateral frontal and temporal lobe regions. Regions implicated in production (from 15 studies) overlapped with the set of

SUBMITTER: Walenski M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6597252 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature