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Allen, Kachina; Pereira, Francisco; Botvinick, Matthew; Goldberg, Adele E. – Brain and Language, 2012
All linguistic and psycholinguistic theories aim to provide psychologically valid analyses of particular grammatical patterns and the relationships that hold among them. Until recently, no tools were available to distinguish neural correlates of particular grammatical constructions that shared the same content words, propositional meaning, and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Semantics, Language Patterns, Sentences
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Arciuli, Joanne; McMahon, Katie; de Zubicaray, Greig – Brain and Language, 2012
What helps us determine whether a word is a noun or a verb, without conscious awareness? We report on cues in the way individual English words are spelled, and, for the first time, identify their neural correlates via functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). We used a lexical decision task with trisyllabic nouns and verbs containing…
Descriptors: Spelling, Grammar, Brain, Word Recognition
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Meteyard, Lotte; Patterson, Karalyn – Brain and Language, 2009
In order to explore the impact of a degraded semantic system on the structure of language production, we analysed transcripts from autobiographical memory interviews to identify naturally-occurring speech errors by eight patients with semantic dementia (SD) and eight age-matched normal speakers. Relative to controls, patients were significantly…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Sentences, Semantics, Grammar