Towards Understanding Sustained Neural Activity Across Syntactic Dependencies.

ABSTRACT: Sustained anterior negativities have been the focus of much neurolinguistics research concerned with the language-memory interface, but what neural computations do they actually reflect? During the comprehension of sentences with long-distance dependencies between elements (such as object wh-questions), prior event-related potential work has demonstrated sustained anterior negativities (SANs) across the dependency region. SANs have been traditionally interpreted as an index of working memory resources responsible for storing the first element (e.g., wh-phrase) until the second element (e.g., verb) is encountered and the two can be integrated. However, it is also known that humans pursue top-down approaches in processing long-distance dependencies-predicting units and structur

SUBMITTER: Cruz Heredia AAL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10158612 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature