| Literature DB >> 30977309 |
Satu Saalasti1,2,3, Jussi Alho1,2, Moshe Bar4, Enrico Glerean1,5,6, Timo Honkela7, Minna Kauppila1, Mikko Sams1,6, Iiro P Jääskeläinen1.
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.Entities:
Keywords: brain mechanisms; functional magnetic resonance imaging; interindividual differences; meaning; semantics; similarity
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30977309 PMCID: PMC6520291 DOI: 10.1002/brb3.1288
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Behav Impact factor: 2.708
Figure 1Similarities/differences of subjects' individual semantics when listening to the narrative. LEFT: Excerpt from the narrative with one phrase‐segment highlighted with red font color. Word lists produced by three representative subjects to this particular segment are shown below as examples of similarities and differences in the individual semantics (note that both the narrative excerpt and word lists have been here translated to English for illustration purposes). RIGHT: Correlation matrix showing LSA‐ and WordNet‐derived similarities/differences of subjects' individual semantics when listening the narrative. While some subject pairs exhibit striking similarity, there were also robust differences across many subject pairs. Note that the values plotted here mark mean subject pairwise similarities/differences across the whole narrative
Figure 2Subjects' pairwise LSA‐Wordnet similarity values (ascending)
Figure 3Intersubject correlation (ISC) of BOLD signals (FRD‐corrected q < 0.05)
Figure 4Brain areas where similarities in perceived semantics of the narrative significantly predicted intersubject similarity of brain activity during narrative listening. (AG = angular gyrus; SMG = supramarginal gyrus; OP = occipital pole). Peak activation at left SMG −56, −50, 26, right AG 48, −62, 26, and right cuneus 4, −88, 18. Unthresholded correlation‐value maps from the RSA analysis can be found in 3‐D brain space at Neurovault. org (https://neurovault.org/collections/KCKVHDCV/)
Figure 5Brain areas where similarities in perceived semantics of the other half predicted ISC of brain activity from the other half. TOP: the first half was used to calculate the similarity of associations (LSA combined with WordNet) and the second half to calculate ISC. BELOW: The first half was used to calculate the ISC and the second half to calculate the similarity of associations (LSA combined with WordNet)