Distinct Brain Systems for Processing Concrete and Abstract Concepts
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Reading in a Regular Orthography: An fMRI Study Investigating the Role of Visual Familiarity
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An fMRI Study of Syntactic Adaptation
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neural Correlates of Lexical Access during Visual Word Recognition
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Repair, Revision, and Complexity in Syntactic Analysis: An Electrophysiological Differentiation
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Response of Left Temporal Cortex to Sentences
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Task-Dependent Modulation of Regions in the Left Inferior Frontal Cortex during Semantic Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
An Event-related Neuroimaging Study Distinguishing Form and Content in Sentence Processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Conceptual Processing during the Conscious Resting State: A Functional MRI Study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Functional Neuroanatomy of the Semantic System: Divisible by What?
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Effects of Syntactic Structure and Propositional Number on Patterns of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Segregating semantic from phonological processes during reading
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Sentence reading: A functional mri study at 4 tesla
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The Functional Neuroanatomy of Thematic Role and Locative Relational Knowledge
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Localization of Syntactic and Semantic Brain Responses using Magnetoencephalography
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Unification of speaker and meaning in language comprehension: An fmri study
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Contrasting effects of vocabulary knowledge on temporal and parietal brain structure across lifespan
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Neuronal activation for semantically reversible sentences
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The role of broca's area in sentence comprehension
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
The influence of context on hemispheric recruitment during metaphor processing
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience
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In previous functional neuroimaging studies, left anterior temporal and temporal-parietal areas responded more strongly to sentences than to randomly ordered lists of words. The smaller response for word lists could be explained by either (1) less activation of syntactic processes due to the absence of syntactic structure in the random word lists or (2) less activation of semantic processes resulting from failure to combine the content words into a global meaning. To test these two explanations, we conducted a functional magnetic resonance imaging study in which word order and combinatorial word meaning were independently manipulated during auditory comprehension. Subjects heard six different stimuli: normal sentences, semantically incongruent sentences in which content words were randomly replaced with other content words, pseudoword sentences, and versions of these three sentence types in which word order was randomized to remove syntactic structure. Effects of syntactic structure (greater activation to sentences than to word lists) were observed in the left anterior superior temporal sulcus and left angular gyrus. Semantic effects (greater activation to semantically congruent stimuli than either incongruent or pseudoword stimuli) were seen in widespread, bilateral temporal lobe areas and the angular gyrus. Of the two regions that responded to syntactic structure, the angular gyrus showed a greater response to semantic structure, suggesting that reduced activation for word lists in this area is related to a disruption in semantic processing. The anterior temporal lobe, on the other hand, was relatively insensitive to manipulations of semantic structure, suggesting that syntactic information plays a greater role in driving activation in this area.