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Segaert, Katrien; Kempen, Gerard; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Hagoort, Peter – Brain and Language, 2013
Behavioral syntactic priming effects during sentence comprehension are typically observed only if both the syntactic structure and lexical head are repeated. In contrast, during production syntactic priming occurs with structure repetition alone, but the effect is boosted by repetition of the lexical head. We used fMRI to investigate the neuronal…
Descriptors: Priming, Sentences, Verbs, Syntax
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Tesink, Cathelijne M. J. Y.; Buitelaar, Jan K.; Petersson, Karl Magnus; van der Gaag, Rutger Jan; Teunisse, Jan-Pieter; Hagoort, Peter – Neuropsychologia, 2011
In individuals with ASD, difficulties with language comprehension are most evident when higher-level semantic-pragmatic language processing is required, for instance when context has to be used to interpret the meaning of an utterance. Until now, it is unclear at what level of processing and for what type of context these difficulties in language…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Semantics, Autism
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Baggio, Giosue; van Lambalgen, Michiel; Hagoort, Peter – Journal of Memory and Language, 2008
While syntactic reanalysis has been extensively investigated in psycholinguistics, comparatively little is known about reanalysis in the semantic domain. We used event-related brain potentials (ERPs) to keep track of semantic processes involved in understanding short narratives such as "The girl was writing a letter when her friend spilled coffee…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Brain, Language Processing