PMID- 32590019
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20210624
LR  - 20210624
IS  - 1873-3514 (Electronic)
IS  - 0028-3932 (Linking)
VI  - 146
DP  - 2020 Sep
TI  - The relationship between language ability and brain activity across language 
      processes and modalities.
PG  - 107536
LID - S0028-3932(20)30209-8 [pii]
LID - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107536 [doi]
AB  - Existing neuroimaging studies on the relationship between language ability and 
      brain activity have found contradictory evidence: On the one hand, increased 
      activity with higher language ability has been interpreted as deeper or more 
      adaptive language processing. On the other hand, decreased activity with higher 
      language ability has been interpreted as more efficient language processing. In 
      contrast to previous studies, the current study investigated the relationship 
      between language ability and neural activity across different language processes 
      and modalities while keeping non-linguistic cognitive task demands to a minimum. 
      fMRI data were collected from 22 healthy adults performing a sentence listening 
      task, a sentence reading task and a phonological production task. Outside the MRI 
      scanner, language ability was assessed with the verbal scale of the Wechsler 
      Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence (WASI-II) and a verbal fluency task. As 
      expected, sentence comprehension activated the left anterior temporal lobe while 
      phonological processing activated the left inferior frontal gyrus. Higher 
      language ability was associated with increased activity in the left temporal lobe 
      during auditory sentence processing and with increased activity in the left 
      frontal lobe during phonological processing, reflected in both, higher intensity 
      and greater extent of activations. Evidence for decreased activity with higher 
      language ability was less consistent and restricted to verbal fluency. Together, 
      the results predominantly support the hypothesis of deeper language processing in 
      individuals with higher language ability. The consistency of results across 
      language processes, modalities, and brain regions suggests a general positive 
      link between language abilities and brain activity within the core language 
      network. However, a negative relationship seems to exist for non-linguistic 
      cognitive functions located outside the language network.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
FAU - Weber, Sarah
AU  - Weber S
AD  - Department of Psychology, Durham University, UK; Department of Biological and 
      Medical Psychology, University of Bergen, Norway. Electronic address: 
      sarah.weber@uib.no.
FAU - Hausmann, Markus
AU  - Hausmann M
AD  - Department of Psychology, Durham University, UK.
FAU - Kane, Philip
AU  - Kane P
AD  - South Tees Hospitals, NHS, UK.
FAU - Weis, Susanne
AU  - Weis S
AD  - Institute of Systems Neuroscience, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University 
      Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Brain & 
      Behaviour (INM-7), Research Centre Julich, Julich, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20200624
PL  - England
TA  - Neuropsychologia
JT  - Neuropsychologia
JID - 0020713
SB  - IM
MH  - Adult
MH  - Brain/diagnostic imaging
MH  - *Brain Mapping
MH  - Comprehension
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Language
MH  - Magnetic Resonance Imaging
MH  - Reading
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Neural efficiency
OT  - Phonological processing
OT  - Sentence comprehension
OT  - Verbal intelligence
OT  - fMRI
EDAT- 2020/06/27 06:00
MHDA- 2021/06/25 06:00
CRDT- 2020/06/27 06:00
PHST- 2019/08/16 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2020/03/03 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2020/06/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2020/06/27 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2021/06/25 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2020/06/27 06:00 [entrez]
AID - S0028-3932(20)30209-8 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107536 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Neuropsychologia. 2020 Sep;146:107536. doi: 
      10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107536. Epub 2020 Jun 24.