Dissociating semantic and phonological maintenance using fMRI |
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Authors: | Shivde Geeta Thompson-Schill Sharon L |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 3720 Walnut Street, 19104 Philadelphia, PA |
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Abstract: | Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) distinguished regions of neural activity associated with active maintenance of
semantic and phonological information. Subjects saw a single word for 2 sec, and following a 10-sec delay, made a judgment
about that word. In the semantic task, subjects focused on the meaning of the word and decided whether a second word was synonymous
with it. In the phonological task, subjects repeated the word silently and decided whether it shared a vowel sound with a
nonsense word. Analyses allowed for isolation of neural activity during the maintenance delay. Semantic maintenance elicited
greater activity in bilateral inferior frontal gyrus and left middle temporal gyrus regions of interest (ROI). In contrast,
there was greater activity for phonological maintenance in the left superior parietal ROI. These results show a frontal-temporal
network involved in actively maintaining the meanings of words, and they indicate that semantic and phonological maintenance
processes are dissociable within working memory. |
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