Differential contributions of inferior frontal gyrus subregions to sentence processing guided by intonation.

ABSTRACT: Auditory sentence comprehension involves processing content (semantics), grammar (syntax), and intonation (prosody). The left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) is involved in sentence comprehension guided by these different cues, with neuroimaging studies preferentially locating syntactic and semantic processing in separate IFG subregions. However, this regional specialisation has not been confirmed with a neurostimulation method. Consequently, the causal role of such a specialisation remains unclear. This study probed the role of the posterior IFG (pIFG) for syntactic processing and the anterior IFG (aIFG) for semantic processing with repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) in a task that required the interpretation of the sentence's prosodic realisation. Healthy participants perfo

SUBMITTER: van der Burght CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9842926 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature