Fractionating difficulty during sentence comprehension using functional neuroimaging.

ABSTRACT: Sentence comprehension is highly practiced and largely automatic, but this belies the complexity of the underlying processes. We used functional neuroimaging to investigate garden-path sentences that cause difficulty during comprehension, in order to unpack the different processes used to support sentence interpretation. By investigating garden-path and other types of sentences within the same individuals, we functionally profiled different regions within the temporal and frontal cortices in the left hemisphere. The results revealed that different aspects of comprehension difficulty are handled by left posterior temporal, left anterior temporal, ventral left frontal, and dorsal left frontal cortices. The functional profiles of these regions likely lie along a spectrum of specificity to gen

SUBMITTER: Thothathiri M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10847905 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature