The neurobiology of taboo language processing: fMRI evidence during spoken word production.

ABSTRACT: Every language has words deemed to be socially inappropriate or 'taboo' to utter. Taboo word production appears prominently in language disorders following brain injury. Yet, we know little about the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing taboo compared to neutral language. In the present study, we introduced taboo distractor words in the picture word interference paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how these words influence spoken word production. Taboo distractor words significantly slowed picture-naming latencies compared to neutral words. This interference effect was associated with increased blood oxygen level dependent signal across a distributed thalamo-cortical network including bilateral anterior cingulate cortex and left inferior f

SUBMITTER: Hansen SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6399611 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature