Semantic-specific and domain-general mechanisms for integration and update of contextual information.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has highlighted the importance of domain-general processes and brain regions for language and semantic cognition. Yet, this has been mainly observed in executively demanding tasks, leaving open the question of the contribution of domain-general processes to natural language and semantic cognition. Using fMRI, we investigated whether neural processes reflecting context integration and context update-two key aspects of naturalistic language and semantic processing-are domain-specific versus domain-general. Thus, we compared neural responses during the integration of contextual information across semantic and non-semantic tasks. Whole-brain results revealed both shared (left posterior-dorsal inferior frontal gyrus, left posterior inferior temporal gyrus, and left dorsal angula

SUBMITTER: Branzi FM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10619409 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature