RT Journal Article
T1 Language Learning under Working Memory Constraints Correlates with Microstructural Differences in the Ventral Language Pathway
A1 López-Barroso, Diana
A1 De Diego Balaguer, Ruth
A1 Cunillera, Toni
A1 Càmara, Estela
A1 Münthe, Thomas F.
A1 Rodríguez-Fornells, Antoni
K1 Lenguaje - Adquisición - Aspectos psicológicos
AB The present study combined behavioral measures and diffusion tensor imaging to investigate the neuroanatomical basis of language learning in relation to phonological working memory (WM). Participants were exposed to simplified artificial languages under WM constraints. The results underscore the role of the rehearsal subcomponent of WM in successful speech segmentation and rule learning. Moreover, when rehearsal was blocked task performance was correlated to the white matter microstructure of the left ventral pathway connecting frontal and temporal language-related cortical areas through the extreme/external capsule. This ventral pathway may therefore play an important additional role in language learning when the main dorsal pathway-dependent rehearsal mechanisms are not available.
PB Oxford University Press
YR 2011
FD 2011-04-28
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37512
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37512
LA spa
NO Lopez-Barroso D, de Diego-Balaguer R, Cunillera T, Camara E, Münte TF, Rodriguez-Fornells A. Language learning under working memory constraints correlates with microstructural differences in the ventral language pathway. Cereb Cortex. 2011 Dec;21(12):2742-50.
NO Grant from the Volkswagen Foundation (T.F.M./A.R.F.) and Grants from the Spanish Government to A.R.F. (MICINN,PSI2008-03901) and R.D.B. (MICINN, PSI2008-3885). D.L.B. was supported by a predoctoral grant (2010FI_B1 00169) from the Catalan government. T.F.M. is also supported by the Deutche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, SFBTR31 TP A7).
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
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