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Voxel-Wise Localization of Brain Activity While Comprehending Oral Russian-Language Stories

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Advances in Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics (Intercognsci 2020)

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We have implemented neurosemantic analysis to identify voxel-wise representations of lexical items in brain’s reaction of native participants on Russian spoken narratives and these representations possible global asymmetries in the brain. Twenty-five subjects took part in this study. Five texts with personal life stories were presented as audio stimuli. Each story was 2 min long. Ultrafast MRI sequences (TR = 1000 ms) were used to scan brain activity. Scanning was performed on 3 T MRI (Siemens). Seven subjects were selected for further analysis following the control of their cognitive involvement into listening and the level of their registered brain activity. As in an earlier our study with these narratives, twelve lexical clusters were found, with different but coherent semantic fields: from time-and-space concepts to human actions and mental states. The individual semantic maps of each subject look similar in terms of their broad brain activity distribution. Clusters demonstrated nearly symmetrical localization. This fact implies that the left and right hemispheres are both involved in the neural representation of mental lexicon.

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The study has been in part supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant 17-78-30029.

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  1. Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia

    Zakhar Nosovets, Boris M. Velichkovsky, Liudmila Zaidelman, Sergey Kartashov, Artemiy Kotov & Vera Zabotkina

  2. National Research Center “Kurchatov Institute”, Moscow, Russia

    Zakhar Nosovets, Boris M. Velichkovsky, Liudmila Zaidelman, Vyacheslav Orlov, Sergey Kartashov & Artemiy Kotov

  3. Technische Universitaet, Dresden, Germany

    Boris M. Velichkovsky

  4. Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), National Research Nuclear University, Moscow, Russia

    Vadim Ushakov

  5. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    Vadim Ushakov

  6. Alexeev Mental-Health Clinic, Moscow, Russia

    Vadim Ushakov

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Table 3. Number of active voxels for all the clusters and ratio of these voxels to the number of the best 10,000 voxels, represented in the same zone for each subject (L and R correspond to left and right hemispheres; percentages are given in parentheses)
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Nosovets, Z. et al. (2021). Voxel-Wise Localization of Brain Activity While Comprehending Oral Russian-Language Stories. In: Velichkovsky, B.M., Balaban, P.M., Ushakov, V.L. (eds) Advances in Cognitive Research, Artificial Intelligence and Neuroinformatics. Intercognsci 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1358. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71637-0_35

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