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@ARTICLE{Grodzinsky:893925,
author = {Grodzinsky, Yosef and Pieperhoff, Peter and Thompson,
Cynthia},
title = {{S}table brain loci for the processing of complex syntax: a
review of the current neuroimaging evidence},
journal = {Cortex},
volume = {142},
issn = {0010-9452},
address = {New York, NY},
publisher = {Elsevier},
reportid = {FZJ-2021-02935},
pages = {252-271},
year = {2021},
abstract = {We conducted a retrospective review of fMRI studies of
complex syntax, in order to study the stability of the
neural bases of mechanisms engaged in syntactic processing.
Our review set out rigorous selection criteria of studies
which we discuss, including transparency and minimality of
the contrasts between stimuli, and the presence of whole
brain analyses corrected for multiple comparisons. Seventeen
studies with 316 participants survived our sieve. We mapped
the 65 resulting maxima onto JuBrain, a state-of-the-art
cytoarchitectonic brain atlas (Amunts et al., 2020), and a
sharp picture emerged: syntactic displacement operations (a
k a MOVE) produce highly consistent results, activating left
Broca's region across-the-board and unambiguously; to a
somewhat lesser extent, maxima clustered in left posterior
brain regions, including the STS/STG. The few studies of
syntactic tree-building operations (a k a MERGE) produce a
murkier picture regarding the involvement of the left IFG.
We conclude that the extant data decisively point to the
JuBrain-defined Broca's region as the main locus of complex
receptive syntax in healthy people; the STS/STG also are
involved, but to a lesser extent.},
cin = {INM-1},
ddc = {610},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)INM-1-20090406},
pnm = {5251 - Multilevel Brain Organization and Variability
(POF4-525)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-5251},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {34303116},
UT = {WOS:000689672700020},
doi = {10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.003},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/893925},
}