Syntactic priming and the lexical boost effect during sentence production and sentence comprehension: An fMRI study  

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Segaert, Katrien ; Kempen, Gerard ; Petersson, Karl Magnus ; Hagoort, Peter

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 124 no. 2 (2013), page 174-183.
Topik: Syntactic priming; Lexical boost effect; fMRI adaptation; Repetition suppression; Active and passive sentences; Lexical repetition
Fulltext: 124_02_Segaert.pdf (705.83KB)

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Behavioral syntactic priming effects during sentence comprehension are typically observed only if both the syntactic structure and lexical head are repeated. In contrast, during production syntactic priming occurs with structure repetition alone, but the effect is boosted by repetition of the lexical head. We used fMRI to investigate the neuronal correlates of syntactic priming and lexical boost effects during sentence production and comprehension. The critical measure was the magnitude of fMRI adaptation to repetition of sentences in active or passive voice, with or without verb repetition. In conditions with repeated verbs, we observed adaptation to structure repetition in the left IFG and MTG, for active and passive voice. However, in the absence of repeated verbs, adaptation occurred only for passive sentences. None of the fMRI adaptation effects yielded differential effects for production versus comprehension, suggesting that sentence comprehension and production are subserved by the same neuronal infrastructure for syntactic processing.

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