LATERALIZED HUMAN BRAIN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATED BY TASK SUBTRACTION FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING
LATERALIZED HUMAN BRAIN LANGUAGE SYSTEMS DEMONSTRATED BY TASK SUBTRACTION FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC-RESONANCE-IMAGING
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DOI:
10.1001/archneur.1995.00540300067015
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发表时间:
1995-06-01
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通讯作者:
HYDE, JS
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作者:
BINDER, JR;RAO, SM;HYDE, JS
Objective: To develop a procedure for noninvasive measurement of language lateralization with functional magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).Design: Functional neuroimaging using time-series echo-planar MRI.Setting: University medical center research facility.Subjects: Five healthy, right-handed, young adults.Main Outcome Measures: Number of MRI voxels in left and right hemispheres showing task-related signal increases during two contrasting auditory processing tasks. The nonlinguistic task involved processing of pure tones, while the linguistic task involved processing of single words based on semantic content.Results: The pure-tone processing task activated temporal lobe auditory areas and dorsolateral frontal regions bilaterally. Using this task as a control condition, the semantic processing task resulted in lateralized activity in distributed regions of the left hemisphere. A significant effect of task on intrahemispheric activity pattern was demonstrated in every subject. Results were reproduced in preliminary studies of test-retest reliability.Conclusions: The results demonstrate the lateralized anatomy of semantic linguistic systems in contrast to nonlinguistic auditory sensory processors and introduce a task subtraction technique adapted for functional MRI as a noninvasive measure of language lateralization.