Parametric effects of syntactic–semantic conflict in Broca’s area during sentence processing  

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Thothathiri, Malathi ; Kim, Albert ; Trueswell, John C. ; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 120 no. 3 (2012), page 259-264.
Topik: Language; Syntax; Semantics; Left inferior frontal cortex; Executive function; Broca’s area; Sentence processing
Fulltext: 120_03_Thothathiri.pdf (438.01KB)

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The hypothesized role of Broca’s area in sentence processing ranges from domain-general executive function to domain-specific computation that is specific to certain syntactic structures. We examined this issue by manipulating syntactic structure and conflict between syntactic and semantic cues in a sentence processing task. Functional neuroimaging revealed that activation within several Broca’s area regions of interest reflected the parametric variation in syntactic–semantic conflict. These results suggest that Broca’s area supports sentence processing by mediating between multiple incompatible constraints on sentence interpretation, consistent with this area’s well-known role in conflict resolution in other linguistic and non-linguistic tasks.

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