WU Nan,WANG Jian,XIE Bing,ZHU Gang,CHEN Zhi,WU Guo-cai,FENG Hua.Characteristics of Wernicke area activiation in different listening tasks of Chinese: an fMRI research[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2007,29(10):985-987.
WU Nan,WANG Jian,XIE Bing,ZHU Gang,CHEN Zhi,WU Guo-cai,FENG Hua.Characteristics of Wernicke area activiation in different listening tasks of Chinese: an fMRI research[J].J Amry Med Univ (J Third Mil Med Univ),2007,29(10):985-987.DOI:
Objective To determine which listening task can activate Wernicke area steadily in fMRI. Methods In this study
blood oxygenation level dependent (BOLD)-fMRI was successfully performed at a field strength of 1.5T (SONATA). We selected 10 normal right-handed people and block design was used. There were 3 groups according to different listening tasks: music group
word comprehension group
paragraph comprehension group. Brain activation map was obtained after data postprocessing. Results Right temporal lobe activiation was observed in music group. We found activiation located mainly in left temporal lobe (Wernicke) of all cases in word comprehension group and paragraph comprehension group
and the signals were more clear and steady in paragraph comprehension group. Conclusion Paragraph comprehension task in Chinese can activate the Wernicke area steadily in fMRI.