Short Communication: How the brain responds to any: An MEG study  

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Tesan, Graciela ; Johnson, Blake W. ; Crain, Stephen

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 120 no. 1 (2012), page 66-72.
Topik: Brain imaging in language; Magneto encephalo graphy; Morphosyntactic processing; Negative polarity items (NPI); Posterior temporal gyrus; Semantic processing
Fulltext: 120_01_Tesan.pdf (495.49KB)

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The word any may appear in some sentences, but not in others. For example, any is permitted in sentences that contain the word nobody, as in Nobody ate any fruit. However, in a minimally different context any seems strikingly anomalous: Everybody ate any fruit. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the brain responds to the word any in such minimally different contexts – where it is permitted (licensed) and where it is not permitted (unlicensed). Brain responses were measured from adult readers using magneto encephalo graphy (MEG). The results showed significantly larger responses to permissible contexts in the left posterior temporal areas between 400–500 ms and 590–660 ms. These results clarify the anatomy and timing of brain processes that contribute to our judgment that a word such as any is or is not permitted in a given context.

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