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Computers and Biomedical Research
Left Inferior Prefrontal Cortex Activity Reflects Inhibitory Rather Than Facilitatory Priming
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An fMRI Study of Syntactic Adaptation
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Distinct Patterns of Neural Modulation during the Processing of Conceptual and Syntactic Anomalies
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An Event-related Neuroimaging Study Distinguishing Form and Content in Sentence Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Syntactic and Semantic Modulation of Neural Activity during Auditory Sentence Comprehension
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An meg study of silent meaning
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Sentence reading: A functional mri study at 4 tesla
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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Previous research regarding the neural basis of semantic composition has relied heavily on violation paradigms, which often compare implausible sentences that violate world knowledge to plausible sentences that do not violate world knowledge. This comparison is problematic as it may involve extralinguistic operations such as contextual repair and processes that ultimately lead to the rejection of an anomalous sentence, and these processes may not be part of the core language system. Also, it is unclear if violations of world knowledge actually affect the linguistic operations for semantic composition. Here, we compared two types of sentences that were grammatical, plausible, and acceptable and differed only in the number of semantic operations required for comprehension without the confound of implausible sentences. Specifically, we compared complement coercion sentences (the novelist began the book), which require an extra compositional operation to arrive at their meaning, to control sentences (the novelist wrote the book), which do not have this extra compositional operation, and found that the neural response to complement coercion sentences activated Brodmann's area 45 in the left inferior frontal gyrus more than control sentences. Furthermore, the processing of complement coercion recruited different brain regions than more traditional semantic and syntactic violations (the novelist astonished/write the book, respectively), suggesting that coercion processes are a part of the core of the language faculty but do not recruit the wider network of brain regions underlying semantic and syntactic violations.