On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing
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Resumo: | In an event-related fMRI study, we examined the cortical networks involved in establishing. reference during language comprehension. We compared BOLD responses to sentences containing referentially ambiguous pronouns (e.g., "Ronald told Frank that he..."), referentially failing pronouns (e.g., "Rose told Emily that he...") or coherent pronouns. Referential ambiguity selectively recruited media[ prefrontal regions, suggesting that readers engaged in problemsolving to select a unique referent from the discourse model. Referential failure elicited activation increases in brain regions associated with mo rp ho -syntactic processing, and, for those readers who took failing pronouns to refer to unmentioned entities, additional regions associated with elaborative inferencing were observed. The networks activated by these two referential problems did not overlap with the network activated by a standard semantic anomaly. Instead, we observed a double dissociation, in that the systems activated by semantic anomaly are deactivated by referential ambiguity, and vice versa. This inverse coupling may reflect the dynamic recruitment of semantic and episodic processing to resolve semantically or referentially problematic situations. More generally, our findings suggest that neurocognitive accounts of language comprehension need to address not just how we parse a sentence and combine individual word meanings, but also how we determine who's who and what's what during language COmprehension. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processingEvent-related fMRILanguage comprehensionBrain potentialsText comprehensionFrontal lobesSentence comprehensionFrontomedian cortexPronoun resolutionPrefrontal cortexCognitive controlIn an event-related fMRI study, we examined the cortical networks involved in establishing. reference during language comprehension. We compared BOLD responses to sentences containing referentially ambiguous pronouns (e.g., "Ronald told Frank that he..."), referentially failing pronouns (e.g., "Rose told Emily that he...") or coherent pronouns. Referential ambiguity selectively recruited media[ prefrontal regions, suggesting that readers engaged in problemsolving to select a unique referent from the discourse model. Referential failure elicited activation increases in brain regions associated with mo rp ho -syntactic processing, and, for those readers who took failing pronouns to refer to unmentioned entities, additional regions associated with elaborative inferencing were observed. The networks activated by these two referential problems did not overlap with the network activated by a standard semantic anomaly. Instead, we observed a double dissociation, in that the systems activated by semantic anomaly are deactivated by referential ambiguity, and vice versa. This inverse coupling may reflect the dynamic recruitment of semantic and episodic processing to resolve semantically or referentially problematic situations. More generally, our findings suggest that neurocognitive accounts of language comprehension need to address not just how we parse a sentence and combine individual word meanings, but also how we determine who's who and what's what during language COmprehension. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.ElsevierSapientiaNieuwland, Mante S.Petersson, Karl MagnusVan Berkum, Jos J. A.2018-12-07T14:58:15Z2007-092007-09-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/11934eng1053-811910.1016/j.neuroimage.2007.05.048info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-07-24T10:23:50Zoai:sapientia.ualg.pt:10400.1/11934Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T20:03:22.126419Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing Nieuwland, Mante S. Event-related fMRI Language comprehension Brain potentials Text comprehension Frontal lobes Sentence comprehension Frontomedian cortex Pronoun resolution Prefrontal cortex Cognitive control |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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On sense and reference: examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing |
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Nieuwland, Mante S. |
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Nieuwland, Mante S. Petersson, Karl Magnus Van Berkum, Jos J. A. |
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Petersson, Karl Magnus Van Berkum, Jos J. A. |
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Sapientia |
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Nieuwland, Mante S. Petersson, Karl Magnus Van Berkum, Jos J. A. |
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Event-related fMRI Language comprehension Brain potentials Text comprehension Frontal lobes Sentence comprehension Frontomedian cortex Pronoun resolution Prefrontal cortex Cognitive control |
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Event-related fMRI Language comprehension Brain potentials Text comprehension Frontal lobes Sentence comprehension Frontomedian cortex Pronoun resolution Prefrontal cortex Cognitive control |
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In an event-related fMRI study, we examined the cortical networks involved in establishing. reference during language comprehension. We compared BOLD responses to sentences containing referentially ambiguous pronouns (e.g., "Ronald told Frank that he..."), referentially failing pronouns (e.g., "Rose told Emily that he...") or coherent pronouns. Referential ambiguity selectively recruited media[ prefrontal regions, suggesting that readers engaged in problemsolving to select a unique referent from the discourse model. Referential failure elicited activation increases in brain regions associated with mo rp ho -syntactic processing, and, for those readers who took failing pronouns to refer to unmentioned entities, additional regions associated with elaborative inferencing were observed. The networks activated by these two referential problems did not overlap with the network activated by a standard semantic anomaly. Instead, we observed a double dissociation, in that the systems activated by semantic anomaly are deactivated by referential ambiguity, and vice versa. This inverse coupling may reflect the dynamic recruitment of semantic and episodic processing to resolve semantically or referentially problematic situations. More generally, our findings suggest that neurocognitive accounts of language comprehension need to address not just how we parse a sentence and combine individual word meanings, but also how we determine who's who and what's what during language COmprehension. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. |
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