scholarly journals Addressing the Language Binding Problem With Dynamic Functional Connectivity During Meaningful Spoken Language Comprehension

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin J. White ◽  
Candace Nayman ◽  
Benjamin T. Dunkley ◽  
Anne E. Keller ◽  
Taufik A. Valiante ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Binding Problem ◽  
Dynamic Functional Connectivity ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

scholarly journals Fronto-temporal brain systems supporting spoken language comprehension

2007 ◽  
Vol 363 (1493) ◽  
pp. 1037-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorraine K Tyler ◽  
William Marslen-Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Functional Connectivity ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Semantic Interpretation ◽  
Syntactic Analysis ◽  
Connectivity Analysis ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

The research described here combines psycholinguistically well-motivated questions about different aspects of human language comprehension with behavioural and neuroimaging studies of normal performance, incorporating both subtractive analysis techniques and functional connectivity methods, and applying these tasks and techniques to the analysis of the functional and neural properties of brain-damaged patients with selective linguistic deficits in the relevant domains. The results of these investigations point to a set of partially dissociable sub-systems supporting three major aspects of spoken language comprehension, involving regular inflectional morphology, sentence-level syntactic analysis and sentence-level semantic interpretation. Differential patterns of fronto-temporal connectivity for these three domains confirm that the core aspects of language processing are carried out in a fronto-temporo-parietal language system which is modulated in different ways as a function of different linguistic processing requirements. No one region or sub-region holds the key to a specific language function; each requires the coordination of activity within a number of different regions. Functional connectivity analysis plays the critical role of indicating the regions which directly participate in a given sub-process, by virtue of their joint time-dependent activity. By revealing these codependencies, connectivity analysis sharpens the pattern of structure–function relations underlying specific aspects of language performance.

Activation and Persistence of Implicit Causality Information in Spoken Language Comprehension

2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pirita Pyykkönen ◽  
Juhani Järvikivi
Keyword(s):  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Visual World ◽  
Implicit Causality ◽  
Causality Information ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension

A visual world eye-tracking study investigated the activation and persistence of implicit causality information in spoken language comprehension. We showed that people infer the implicit causality of verbs as soon as they encounter such verbs in discourse, as is predicted by proponents of the immediate focusing account ( Greene & McKoon, 1995 ; Koornneef & Van Berkum, 2006 ; Van Berkum, Koornneef, Otten, & Nieuwland, 2007 ). Interestingly, we observed activation of implicit causality information even before people encountered the causal conjunction. However, while implicit causality information was persistent as the discourse unfolded, it did not have a privileged role as a focusing cue immediately at the ambiguous pronoun when people were resolving its antecedent. Instead, our study indicated that implicit causality does not affect all referents to the same extent, rather it interacts with other cues in the discourse, especially when one of the referents is already prominently in focus.

Lexical representations in spoken language comprehension

1988 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Marslen-Wilson ◽  
Colin M. Brown ◽  
Lorraine Komisarjevsky Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Language Comprehension ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Lexical Representations ◽  
Spoken Language Comprehension
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