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Article: Language affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decision

TitleLanguage affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decision
Authors
KeywordsColor
Lateralization
Linguistic relativity
Neuroimaging
Whorf
Issue Date2008
PublisherNational Academy of Sciences. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.pnas.org
Citation
Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 2008, v. 105 n. 10, p. 4004-4009 How to Cite?
AbstractWell over half a century ago, Benjamin Lee Whorf [Carroll JB (1956) Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)] proposed that language affects perception and thought and is used to segment nature, a hypothesis that has since been tested by linguistic and behavioral studies. Although clear Whorfian effects have been found, it has not yet been demonstrated that language influences brain activity associated with perception and/or immediate postperceptual processes (referred hereafter as "perceptual decision"). Here, by using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show that brain regions mediating language processes participate in neural networks activated by perceptual decision. When subjects performed a perceptual discrimination task on easy-to-name and hard-to-name colored squares, largely overlapping cortical regions were identified, which included areas of the occipital cortex critical for color vision and regions in the bilateral frontal gyrus. Crucially, however, in comparison with hard-to-name colored squares, perceptual discrimination of easy-to-name colors evoked stronger activation in the left posterior superior temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobule, two regions responsible for word-finding processes, as demonstrated by a localizer experiment that uses an explicit color patch naming task. This finding suggests that the language-processing areas of the brain are directly involved in visual perceptual decision, thus providing neuroimaging support for the Whorf hypothesis. © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/150900
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2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 3.737
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dc.contributor.authorTan, LHen_HK
dc.contributor.authorChan, AHDen_HK
dc.contributor.authorKay, Pen_HK
dc.contributor.authorKhong, PLen_HK
dc.contributor.authorYip, LKCen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLuke, KKen_HK
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-26T06:14:08Z-
dc.date.available2012-06-26T06:14:08Z-
dc.date.issued2008en_HK
dc.identifier.citationProceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America, 2008, v. 105 n. 10, p. 4004-4009en_HK
dc.identifier.issn0027-8424en_HK
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/150900-
dc.description.abstractWell over half a century ago, Benjamin Lee Whorf [Carroll JB (1956) Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA)] proposed that language affects perception and thought and is used to segment nature, a hypothesis that has since been tested by linguistic and behavioral studies. Although clear Whorfian effects have been found, it has not yet been demonstrated that language influences brain activity associated with perception and/or immediate postperceptual processes (referred hereafter as "perceptual decision"). Here, by using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we show that brain regions mediating language processes participate in neural networks activated by perceptual decision. When subjects performed a perceptual discrimination task on easy-to-name and hard-to-name colored squares, largely overlapping cortical regions were identified, which included areas of the occipital cortex critical for color vision and regions in the bilateral frontal gyrus. Crucially, however, in comparison with hard-to-name colored squares, perceptual discrimination of easy-to-name colors evoked stronger activation in the left posterior superior temporal gyrus and inferior parietal lobule, two regions responsible for word-finding processes, as demonstrated by a localizer experiment that uses an explicit color patch naming task. This finding suggests that the language-processing areas of the brain are directly involved in visual perceptual decision, thus providing neuroimaging support for the Whorf hypothesis. © 2008 by The National Academy of Sciences of the USA.en_HK
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherNational Academy of Sciences. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.pnas.orgen_HK
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of Americaen_HK
dc.subjectColoren_HK
dc.subjectLateralizationen_HK
dc.subjectLinguistic relativityen_HK
dc.subjectNeuroimagingen_HK
dc.subjectWhorfen_HK
dc.subject.meshAdulten_US
dc.subject.meshBehavioren_US
dc.subject.meshBrain Mappingen_US
dc.subject.meshColor Perceptionen_US
dc.subject.meshColor Perception Testsen_US
dc.subject.meshDecision Makingen_US
dc.subject.meshFemaleen_US
dc.subject.meshHumansen_US
dc.subject.meshLanguageen_US
dc.subject.meshMagnetic Resonance Imagingen_US
dc.subject.meshMaleen_US
dc.subject.meshPerceptionen_US
dc.titleLanguage affects patterns of brain activation associated with perceptual decisionen_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
dc.identifier.emailKhong, PL:plkhong@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailLuke, KK:kkluke@hkusua.hku.hken_HK
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dc.identifier.doi10.1073/pnas.0800055105en_HK
dc.identifier.pmid18316728-
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dc.identifier.volume105en_HK
dc.identifier.issue10en_HK
dc.identifier.spage4004en_HK
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dc.publisher.placeUnited Statesen_HK
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