Involvement of the left inferior frontal gyrus in predictive inference making

Neural correlates of Machiavellian strategies in a social dilemma task

“…blocking attention from returning to the previously attended location (Tian & Yao, 2008). Lingual gyrus plays a crucial role in language processing and the integration of sentences into the mental representation of the text (Jin et al, 2009). We speculate that in the hope of the successful manipulation, Machiavellians pay a larger attention to the texts on the screen that inform them about the possible movements (transferring a certain amount of money to the partner) during the game.…”

“…Given that people with high working memory capacity are more likely to draw inferences, the authors indicated that this area plays a critical role in bridging inference generation. Another study manipulated the likelihood that a particular event can be predicted from the content of various sentences and revealed that predictive stories (from which novel statements could be inferred) evoked stronger activities in the left inferior frontal gyrus and the right lingual gyrus, relative to reading control studies (Jin et al, 2009). However, more recent studies suggest that the function of IFG goes beyond verbal communication and probably extends to nonverbal social interaction (Liakakis et al, 2011).…”

Recruitment of the ventral and dorsal streams in statistical graph comprehension: An fMRI study

“…Previous studies indicated that the lingual gyrus is strongly activated in the integration of local information For example, some studies investigated the processing of the global and local hierarchically organized and found that the lingual gyri were strongly activated during the integration of local and global aspects [16,17]. Similarly, Jin et al indicated that associative processing with predictive inference increased lingual gyrus activation [18]. Therefore, during statistical graph comprehension, subjects first read the values of various items, involving the integration of various elements (e.g., x-axis labels, the height of a correspond-ing bar (bar-graphs), the location of data points (line-graphs), or the corresponding y-values) to form a meaningful graph.…”

Desempenho de indivduos com lesão de hemisfério direito versus esquerdo na compreensão de inferências escritas

“…Quanto maior a necessidade de contextualização e complexidade da inferência, maior é o recrutamento do HD (Mason, Just, 2004;Virtue et al, 2006a;Ferstl, 2007;Virtue et al, 2008;Friese et al, 2008;Ferstl et al, 2008;Jin et al, 2009;Jang et al, 2013).…”

“…Adicionalmente, pesquisas realizadas em indivíduos normais, com técnicas de neuroimagem e outros métodos que avaliam o funcionamento cerebral, têm demonstrado co-ativação dos hemisférios durante o processamento das inferências, com participação de uma ampla rede neural do HE (especialmente lobos frontal e temporal) e áreas adicionais do HD em situações que implicam a compreensão de materiais mais complexos (Beeman et al, 2000;Mason, Just, 2004;Sundermeier et al, 2005;Virtue et al, 2006a;Virtue et al, 2006b;Virtue et al, 2008;Shears et al, 2008;Friese et al, 2008;Ferstl et al, 2008;Jin et al, 2009;Powers et al, 2012;Virtue et al, 2012;Jang et al, 2013;Gouldthorp, 2015).…”