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Thothathiri, Malathi; Kim, Albert; Trueswell, John C.; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Brain and Language, 2012
The hypothesized role of Broca's area in sentence processing ranges from domain-general executive function to domain-specific computation that is specific to certain syntactic structures. We examined this issue by manipulating syntactic structure and conflict between syntactic and semantic cues in a sentence processing task. Functional…
Descriptors: Sentences, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Language Processing, Semantics
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Plunkett, Kim; Bandelow, Stephan – Brain and Language, 2006
Computer modelling research has undermined the view that double dissociations in behaviour are sufficient to infer separability in the cognitive mechanisms underlying those behaviours. However, all these models employ "multi-modal" representational schemes, where functional specialisation of processing emerges from the training process.…
Descriptors: Information Processing, Cognitive Processes, Neuropsychology, Incidence