Mental Representation and Processing Involved in Comprehending Korean Regular and Irregular Verb Eojeols: An fMRI and Reaction Time Study

摘要

The purpose of this study is to investigate the cortical areas involved in comprehending Korean regular and irregular verb Eojeols. Eojeols is the specific spacing unit of a sentence which is bigger than a word but smaller than phrase. This study showed that there is a distinction between the process and representation of regularly and irregularly inflected verbs in Korean using neuroimaging and hehavioral method.