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ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2019

The neurobiology of taboo language processing: fMRI evidence during spoken word production.

Samuel J Hansen, Katie L McMahon, Greig I de Zubicaray

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Article in Social cognitive and affective neuroscience, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Cortico-Cerebellar Monitoring of Speech Sequence Production.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024
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  4. Predictive Coding and Internal Error Correction in Speech Production.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023
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  6. Multi-model mapping of phonemic fluency.Brain communications · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Samuel J HansenSchool of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Katie L McMahonHerston Imaging Research Facility and School of Clinical Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Greig I de ZubicarayFaculty of Health, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD, Australia.
Queensland University of Technology · AUUniversity of Queensland · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Every language has words deemed to be socially inappropriate or 'taboo' to utter. Taboo word production appears prominently in language disorders following brain injury. Yet, we know little about the cognitive and neural mechanisms involved in processing taboo compared to neutral language. In the present study, we introduced taboo distractor words in the picture word interference paradigm during functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate how these words influence spoken word production. Taboo distractor words significantly slowed picture-naming latencies compared to neutral words. This interference effect was associated with increased blood oxygen level dependent signal across a distributed thalamo-cortical network including bilateral anterior cingulate cortex and left inferior frontal gyrus, left posterior middle temporal gyrus and right thalamus. We interpret our findings as being consistent with an account integrating both domain-general attention-capture/distractor blocking and language-specific mechanisms in processing taboo words during spoken word production.

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LanguageTabooAdultAttentionBrain MappingFemaleHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleOxygenTemporal LobeYoung AdultOxygenattention capturefunctional magnetic resonance imagingpicture-word interferencespoken word productiontaboo words

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PMID30715549
PMCPMC6399611
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