dc.contributor.author
Schmidt, Timo Torsten
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Miller, Tally McCormick
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Blankenburg, Felix
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Pulvermüller, Friedemann
dc.date.accessioned
2019-03-07T11:43:24Z
dc.date.available
2019-03-07T11:43:24Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/24092
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-1866
dc.description.abstract
It is a long-standing question in neurolinguistics, to what extent language can have a causal effect on perception. A recent behavioural study reported that participants improved their discrimination ability of Braille-like tactile stimuli after one week of implicit association training with language stimuli being co-presented redundantly with the tactile stimuli. In that experiment subjects were exposed twice a day for 1 h to the joint presentation of tactile stimuli presented to the fingertip and auditorily presented pseudowords. Their discrimination ability improved only for those tactile stimuli that were consistently paired with pseudowords, but not for those that were discordantly paired with different pseudowords. Thereby, a causal effect of verbal labels on tactile perception has been demonstrated under controlled laboratory conditions. This raises the question as to what the neuronal mechanisms underlying this implicit learning effect are. Here, we present fMRI data collected before and after the aforementioned behavioral learning to test for changes in brain connectivity as the underlying mechanism of the observed behavioral effects. The comparison of pre- and post-training revealed a language-driven increase in connectivity strength between auditory and secondary somatosensory cortex and the hippocampus as an association-learning related region.
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dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject
Human behaviour
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dc.subject
Sensory processing
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dc.subject
Signal processing
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dc.subject.ddc
100 Philosophie und Psychologie::150 Psychologie::150 Psychologie
dc.title
Neuronal correlates of label facilitated tactile perception
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.articlenumber
1606
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1038/s41598-018-37877-w
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Scientific Reports
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
9
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-37877-w
refubium.affiliation
Erziehungswissenschaft und Psychologie
refubium.funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
refubium.note.author
Die Publikation wurde aus Open Access Publikationsgeldern der Freien Universität Berlin und der DFG gefördert.
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no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.issn
2045-2322