LING 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Inferior Frontal Gyrus, Temporal Lobe

• School: UConn
• Department: Linguistics
• Course: LING 1010
• Professor: Akihiko Arano( T A)

Document Summary

There are multiple areas of the brain that are related to language. We can"t open up a brain without killing it. Magnetic resonance imaging (mri) - measures the location and density of a given element in the body. Measure the location and density of hydrogen atoms because they are abundant in the body. Different tissues in the body have different amounts of hydrogen. Structural mri - creates an image of. Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fmri) - looks for deoxygenated hemoglobin to show which parts are activated (have oxygen) Parts of the brain that are used for cognitive tasks require more oxygen. Monomorphemic - requires no structure-building, only 1 morpheme. Multimorphemic - requires structure-building rules, more than 1 morpheme. Study found that there are two areas that are more active for multimorphemic words (than. Two regions of left inferior frontal gyrus (lifg), specifically ba 47 and ba 45.