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Going the Extra Mile: Effects of Discourse Context on Two Late Positivities During Language Comprehension
In: Neurobiol Lang (Camb) (2020)
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Word predictability effects are linear, not logarithmic: Implications for probabilistic models of sentence comprehension
In: J Mem Lang (2020)
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Neural Evidence for the Prediction of Animacy Features during Language Comprehension: Evidence from MEG and EEG Representational Similarity Analysis
In: J Neurosci (2020)
Abstract: It has been proposed that people can generate probabilistic predictions at multiple levels of representation during language comprehension. We used magnetoencephalography (MEG) and electroencephalography (EEG), in combination with representational similarity analysis, to seek neural evidence for the prediction of animacy features. In two studies, MEG and EEG activity was measured as human participants (both sexes) read three-sentence scenarios. Verbs in the final sentences constrained for either animate or inanimate semantic features of upcoming nouns, and the broader discourse context constrained for either a specific noun or for multiple nouns belonging to the same animacy category. We quantified the similarity between spatial patterns of brain activity following the verbs until just before the presentation of the nouns. The MEG and EEG datasets revealed converging evidence that the similarity between spatial patterns of neural activity following animate-constraining verbs was greater than following inanimate-constraining verbs. This effect could not be explained by lexical-semantic processing of the verbs themselves. We therefore suggest that it reflected the inherent difference in the semantic similarity structure of the predicted animate and inanimate nouns. Moreover, the effect was present regardless of whether a specific word could be predicted, providing strong evidence for the prediction of coarse-grained semantic features that goes beyond the prediction of individual words. SIGNIFICANCE STATEMENT Language inputs unfold very quickly during real-time communication. By predicting ahead, we can give our brains a “head start,” so that language comprehension is faster and more efficient. Although most contexts do not constrain strongly for a specific word, they do allow us to predict some upcoming information. For example, following the context of “they cautioned the…,” we can predict that the next word will be animate rather than inanimate (we can caution a person, but not an object). Here, we used EEG and MEG techniques to show that the brain is able to use these contextual constraints to predict the animacy of upcoming words during sentence comprehension, and that these predictions are associated with specific spatial patterns of neural activity.
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32161141
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7159896/
https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1733-19.2020
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Neural evidence for Bayesian trial-by-trial adaptation on the N400 during semantic priming.
Delaney-Busch, Nathaniel; Morgan, Emily; Lau, Ellen. - : eScholarship, University of California, 2019
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A Tale of Two Positivities and the N400: Distinct neural signatures are evoked by confirmed and violated predictions at different levels of representation
In: J Cogn Neurosci (2019)
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Neural Evidence for Bayesian Trial-by-Trial Adaptation on the N400 during Semantic Priming
In: Cognition (2019)
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Priming production: Neural evidence for enhanced automatic semantic activity preceding language production in schizophrenia
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Multimodal neuroimaging evidence for looser lexico-semantic networks in schizophrenia:Evidence from masked indirect semantic priming
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Priming production: Neural evidence for enhanced automatic semantic activity preceding language production in schizophrenia
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Separate streams or probabilistic inference? What the N400 can tell us about the comprehension of events
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The Yin and the Yang of Prediction: An fMRI Study of Semantic Predictive Processing
Weber, Kirsten; Lau, Ellen F.; Stillerman, Benjamin. - : Public Library of Science, 2016
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Automatic Semantic Facilitation in Anterior Temporal Cortex Revealed through Multimodal Neuroimaging
Lau, Ellen F.; Gramfort, Alexandre; Hämäläinen, Matti S.. - : Society for Neuroscience, 2013
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A funny thing happened on the way to articulation: N400 attenuation despite behavioral interference in picture naming
In: Cognition. - Amsterdam [u.a] : Elsevier 123 (2012) 1, 84-99
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Multiple influences of semantic memory on sentence processing: distinct effects of semantic relatedness on violations of real-world event/state knowledge and animacy selection restrictions
In: Journal of memory and language. - Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier 67 (2012) 4, 426-448
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The neurobiology of sentence comprehension
In: The Cambridge handbook of psycholinguistics (Cambridge, 2012), p. 365-389
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Multiple Influences of Semantic Memory on Sentence Processing: Distinct Effects of Semantic Relatedness on Violations of Real-World Event/State Knowledge and Animacy Selection Restrictions
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A funny thing happened on the way to articulation: N400 attenuation despite behavioral interference in picture naming
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(Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: Structure and meaning in sequential image comprehension
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It's All About You: An ERP Study of Emotion and Self-Relevance in Discourse
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Electrophysiological evidence for use of the animacy hierarchy, but not thematic role assignment, during verb-argument processing
In: Language and cognitive processes. - Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 26 (2011) 9, 1402-1456
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