[3P] E. Molecular and Neuronal Bases of Behavior 2

[3P-091] Neural basis of structuring sublexical constituents to a lexical constituent during comprehension of sequentially presented letterstrings: an fMRI study

*Ryutaro Kasedo^1,2, Takuji Watanabe^1,2, Atsuhiko Iijima^1,3,4, Kiyoshi Nakahara⁵, Yusuke Adachi², Fumitaka Homae⁶, Ryu-ichiro Hashimoto⁷, Masafumi Fukuda⁸, Hiroshi Shirozu⁸, Isao Hasegawa² (1. Graduate School Science & Technology, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, 2. Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, Niigata University Niigata, Japan, 3. School of Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, 4. Interdisciplinary Program of Biomedical Engineering, Assistive Technology, and Art and Sports Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Niigata University, Niigata, Japan, 5. Research Center for Brain Communication, Kochi University of Technology, Kochi, Japan, 6. Department of Language Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan, 7. Department of Language Sciences, Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 8. Department of Neurosurgery and Epilepsy Center, Nishi-Niigata Chuo National Hospital, Niigata, Japan)

Keywords:Linguistic merge process, Sublexical unit, Lexical unit, fMRI