1. Intro to fMRI studies
BCS204 Week 4.1
2/4/2019

2. What brain regions are activated when implicitly learning sequences?
Folia and Petersson (2014)
Results from classification task
Saw both ungrammatical sequences during the scanning session
Classify the sequences by pressing Yes or No.
Only that region is activated??
What does it mean by NG > G? And why activation is shown up in that NG > G?

3. Another type of sequences: music
Koelsch et al. (2005)
Compare adults’ and children’s perception of music between musicians and non-musicians
3 groups: children with varying music training, adult musicians, adult non-musicians
Stimuli: 72 chord sequences ending in either regular or irregular
Task: sequence classification task (regular vs. irregular)

4. Another type of sequences: music
Koelsch et al. (2005)
Results
BA 47
BA 47
Similar patterns to implicit learning of sequences
BA 44, 45, 47

5. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
31 healthy adults
Story reading task
2 by 2 design: Mental/Physical X Expected/Unexpected
Why physical condition needed?
If a region found to be active in Mental expected vs. Mental unexpected, is it just by chance or reflecting ToM?

6. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
Behavioral results

7. What brain regions are involved in Theory of Mind
Young et al. (2010)
Defining regions of interest: Results from a previous study
Bilateral temporo-parietal junction
Results from story reading:
Red: Mental > Physical
Green: Unexpected > expected
Yellow: Overlap of the above two

8. Does handwriting training facilitate literacy development?(James 2005)
Left posterior fusiform gyrus
4-year-old children
Two scanning sessions:
4 weeks apart (pre- and posttraining
Two training methods:
Hearing and saying the letter names
Printing the letters (without saying)
Handwriting training
Visual-only training