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Spalek, Katharina; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Brain and Language, 2008
We used fMRI to investigate competition during language production in two word production tasks: object naming and color naming of achromatic line drawings. Generally, fMRI activation was higher for color naming. The line drawings were followed by a word (the distractor word) that referred to either the object, a related object, or an unrelated…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Semantics, Brain, Neurological Organization
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Brennan, Jonathan; Pylkkanen, Liina – Brain and Language, 2008
Much recent psycho- and neuro-linguistic work has aimed to elucidate the mechanisms by which sentence meanings are composed by investigating the processing of semantic mismatch. One controversial case for theories of semantic composition is expressions such as "the clown jumped for ten minutes," in which the aspectual properties of a punctual verb…
Descriptors: Language Processing, Sentences, Semantics, Verbs
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Bormann, Tobias; Kulke, Florian; Wallesch, Claus-W.; Blanken, Gerhard – Brain and Language, 2008
Within a discrete two-stage model of lexicalization, semantic errors and errors of omission are assumed to be independent events. In contrast, cascading and interactive models allow for an influence of word form on lexical selection and thus for an inherent relationship in accounting for both error types. A group of 17 aphasic patients was…
Descriptors: Semantics, Aphasia, Patients, Semiotics
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De Witte, Lieve; Wilssens, Ineke; Engelborghs, Sebastian; De Deyn, Peter P.; Marien, Peter – Brain and Language, 2006
Bilateral vascular thalamic lesions are rare. Although a variety of neurobehavioral manifestations have been described, the literature is less documented with regard to accompanying linguistic disturbances. This article presents an in-depth neurolinguistic analysis of the language symptoms of a patient who incurred bilateral paramedian ischemic…
Descriptors: Syntax, Semantics, Speech, Aphasia
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Landi, Nicole; Perfetti, Charles A. – Brain and Language, 2007
The most prominent theories of reading consider reading comprehension ability to be a direct consequence of lower-level reading skills. Recently however, research has shown that some children with poor comprehension ability perform normally on tests of lower-level skills (e.g., decoding). One promising line of behavioral research has found…
Descriptors: Semantics, Reading, Reading Comprehension, Learning Theories
Vitali, P.; Abutalebi, J.; Tettamanti, M.; Rowe, J.; Scifo, P.; Fazio, F.; Cappa, S.F.; Perani, D. – Brain and Language, 2005
The present fMRI study of semantic fluency for animal and tool names provides further evidence for category-specific brain activations, and reports task-related changes in effective connectivity among defined cerebral regions. Two partially segregated systems of functional integration were highlighted: the tool condition was associated with an…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Processing, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Neuropsychology
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Stringaris, Argyris K.; Medford, Nicholas C.; Giampietro, Vincent; Brammer, Michael J.; David, Anthony S. – Brain and Language, 2007
In this study, we used a novel cognitive paradigm and event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (ER-fMRI) to investigate the neural substrates involved in processing three different types of sentences. Participants read either metaphoric ("Some surgeons are butchers"), literal ("Some surgeons are fathers"), or non-meaningful sentences…
Descriptors: Figurative Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Lateral Dominance, Neuropsychology
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Ibanez, Agustin; Lopez, Vladimir; Cornejo, Carlos – Brain and Language, 2006
This study explores whether the brain can discriminate degrees of semantic congruency during wakefulness and sleep. Experiment 1 was conducted during wakefulness to test degrees of congruency by means of N400 amplitude. In Experiment 2, the same paradigm was applied to a different group of participants during natural night sleep. Stimuli were 108…
Descriptors: Brain, Semantics, Congruence (Psychology), Sleep
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Long, Debra L.; Baynes, Kathleen; Prat, Chantel S. – Brain and Language, 2005
Readers construct at least two interrelated representations when they comprehend a text: (a) a representation of the explicit ideas in a text and the relations among them (i.e., a propositional representation) and (b) a representation of the context or situation to which a text refers (i.e., a discourse model). In a recent study, Long and Baynes…
Descriptors: Semantics, Neurolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Word Recognition
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Blumenfeld, Henrike K.; Booth, James R.; Burman, Douglas D. – Brain and Language, 2006
This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain-behavior correlations in a group of 16 children (9- to 12-year-olds). Activation was measured during a semantic judgment task presented in either the visual or auditory modality that required the individual to determine whether a final word was related in meaning to one…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Visual Discrimination, Auditory Discrimination, Neurolinguistics