A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
Brain correlates of sentence translation in Finnish-Norwegian bilinguals
Authors: Lehtonen MH, Laine M, Niemi J, Thomsen T, Vorobyev VA, Hugdahl K
Publisher: LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
Publication year: 2005
Journal: NeuroReport
Journal name in source: NEUROREPORT
Journal acronym: NEUROREPORT
Volume: 16
Issue: 6
First page : 607
Last page: 610
Number of pages: 4
ISSN: 0959-4965
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1097/00001756-200504250-00018(external)
Abstract
We measured brain activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while Finnish- Norwegian bilinguals silently translated sentences from Finnish into Norwegian and decided whether a later presented probe sentence was a correct translation of the original sentence.The control task included silent sentence reading and probe sentence decision within a single language, Finnish. The translation minus control task contrast activated the left inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann's area 47) and the left basal ganglia. The left inferior frontal activation appears to be related to active semantic retrieval and the basal ganglia activation to a general action control function that works by suppressing competing responses.
We measured brain activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) while Finnish- Norwegian bilinguals silently translated sentences from Finnish into Norwegian and decided whether a later presented probe sentence was a correct translation of the original sentence.The control task included silent sentence reading and probe sentence decision within a single language, Finnish. The translation minus control task contrast activated the left inferior frontal gyrus (Brodmann's area 47) and the left basal ganglia. The left inferior frontal activation appears to be related to active semantic retrieval and the basal ganglia activation to a general action control function that works by suppressing competing responses.
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