Original article<br>Verb and noun verbal fluency: neural mechanisms – functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Ewa Szepietowska; Barbara Gawda

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Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia/Neuropsychiatry and Neuropsychology

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Original article
Verb and noun verbal fluency: neural mechanisms – functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Ewa Małgorzata Szepietowska

,

Barbara Gawda

Neuropsychiatria i Neuropsychologia 2014; 9, 3–4: 81–87

Online publish date: 2015/03/10

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Introduction: Classical neuropsychological and cognitive models suggest distinct neural networks for verbs and nouns.

Aim of the study: Two verbal fluency tasks were used in our study to test the hypothesis of different neural mechanisms of verb and noun fluency. Brain activation (functional magnetic resonance – fMRI) was analyzed during task performances of both categories. Brain activation was measured with fMRI during a block schema of tasks in 35 healthy individuals.

Results: There were differences in localization and level of brain activation. Verbs involved more activation in the temporo-occipital areas in both hemispheres than nouns.

Conclusions: The results are consistent with current data. Verbs are more based on perceptual-semantic processes than nouns.

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Original articleVerb and noun verbal fluency: neural mechanisms – functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Ewa Małgorzata Szepietowska , Barbara Gawda

verbal fluency, grammatical categories, nouns, verbs, neuroimaging

Original article
Verb and noun verbal fluency: neural mechanisms – functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Ewa Małgorzata Szepietowska

,

Barbara Gawda