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dc.contributor.authorFedorenko, Evelina G.
dc.contributor.authorKanwisher, Nancy
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-19T20:03:18Z
dc.date.available2011-10-19T20:03:18Z
dc.date.issued2011-08
dc.identifier.issn1530-8898
dc.identifier.issn0898-929X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66501
dc.description.abstractOn the basis of their review of the literature, Rogalsky and Hickok [Rogalsky, C., & Hickok, G. The role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 23, 1664–1680, 2011] conclude that there is currently no strong evidence for the existence of “sentence-specific processing regions within Broca's area” (p. 1664). Their argument is based, in part, on the observation that many previous studies have failed to detect an effect in the left inferior frontal regions for contrasts between sentences and linguistically degraded control conditions (e.g., lists of unconnected words, lists of nonwords, or acoustically degraded sentence stimuli). Our data largely replicate this lack of activation in inferior frontal regions when traditional random-effects group analyses are conducted but crucially show robust activations in the same data for the same contrasts in almost every subject individually. Thus, it is the use of group analyses in studies of language processing, not the idea that sentences robustly activate frontal regions, that needs to be reconsidered. This reconsideration has important methodological and theoretical implications.en_US
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dc.publisherMIT Pressen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00043en_US
dc.rightsArticle is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use.en_US
dc.sourceMIT Pressen_US
dc.titleSome Regions within Broca's Area Do Respond More Strongly to Sentences than to Linguistically Degraded Stimuli: A Comment on Rogalsky and Hickok (2011)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.identifier.citationFedorenko, Evelina, and Nancy Kanwisher. “Some Regions within Broca’s Area Do Respond More Strongly to Sentences than to Linguistically Degraded Stimuli: A Comment on Rogalsky and Hickok (2011).” Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 23 (2011): 2632-2635. Web. 19 Oct. 2011. © 2011 Massachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.departmentMcGovern Institute for Brain Research at MITen_US
dc.contributor.approverKanwisher, Nancy
dc.contributor.mitauthorFedorenko, Evelina G.
dc.contributor.mitauthorKanwisher, Nancy
dc.relation.journalJournal of Cognitive Neuroscienceen_US
dc.eprint.versionFinal published versionen_US
dc.type.urihttp://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticleen_US
eprint.statushttp://purl.org/eprint/status/PeerRevieweden_US
dspace.orderedauthorsFedorenko, Evelina; Kanwisher, Nancyen
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3823-514X
dc.identifier.orcidhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3853-7885
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