Inferior parietal lobule and early visual areas support elicitation of individualized meanings during narrative listening.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

When listening to a narrative, the verbal expressions translate into meanings and flow of mental imagery. However, the same narrative can be heard quite differently based on differences in listeners' previous experiences and knowledge. We capitalized on such differences to disclose brain regions that support transformation of narrative into individualized propositional meanings and associated mental imagery by analyzing brain activity associated with behaviorally assessed individual meanings elicited by a narrative.

Methods

Sixteen right-handed female subjects were instructed to list words that best described what had come to their minds while listening to an eight-minute narrative during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The fMRI data were analyzed

SUBMITTER: Saalasti S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520291 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature