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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2023

Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network.

Joëlle A M Schroën, Thomas C Gunter, Ole Numssen, Leon O H Kroczek, Gesa Hartwigsen, Angela D Friederici

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Characterizing Directional Dynamics of Semantic Prediction Based on Inter-regional Temporal Generalization.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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  7. Causal evidence for a coordinated temporal interplay within the language network.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023
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6 authors.

Joëlle A M SchroënDepartment of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Thomas C GunterDepartment of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04103, Germany.
Ole NumssenMethods and Development Group Brain Networks, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7164-2682
Leon O H KroczekDepartment of Psychology, Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Universität Regensburg, Regensburg 93053, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5588-5067
Gesa HartwigsenLise Meitner Research Group Cognition and Plasticity, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-8084-1330
Angela D FriedericiDepartment of Neuropsychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig 04103, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6328-865X

Funding

European Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent neurobiological models on language suggest that auditory sentence comprehension is supported by a coordinated temporal interplay within a left-dominant brain network, including the posterior inferior frontal gyrus (pIFG), posterior superior temporal gyrus and sulcus (pSTG/STS), and angular gyrus (AG). Here, we probed the timing and causal relevance of the interplay between these regions by means of concurrent transcranial magnetic stimulation and electroencephalography (TMS-EEG). Our TMS-EEG experiments reveal region- and time-specific causal evidence for a bidirectional information flow from left pSTG/STS to left pIFG and back during auditory sentence processing. Adapting a condition-and-perturb approach, our findings further suggest that the left pSTG/STS can be supported by the left AG in a state-dependent manner.

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LanguageTranscranial Magnetic StimulationBrain MappingCerebral CortexComprehensionMagnetic Resonance ImagingParietal Lobebrain dynamicslanguage networkN400TMS-EEG

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PMID37963247
PMCPMC10666120

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