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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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Haslam, C.; Wills, A. J.; Haslam, S. A.; Kay, J.; Baron, R.; McNab, F. – Brain and Language, 2007
Recent neuropsychological evidence, supporting a strong version of Whorfian principles of linguistic relativity, has reinvigorated debate about the role of language in colour categorisation. This paper questions the methodology used in this research and uses a novel approach to examine the unique contribution of language to categorisation…
Descriptors: Color, Longitudinal Studies, Maintenance, Semantics