Semantic Integration Demands Modulate Large-Scale Network Interactions in the Brain.

ABSTRACT: The ability to integrate semantic information into the context of a sentence is essential for human communication. Several studies have shown that the predictability of a final keyword based on the sentence context influences semantic integration on the behavioral, neurophysiological, and neural level. However, the architecture of the underlying network interactions for semantic integration across the lifespan remains unclear. In this study, 32 healthy participants (30-75 years) performed an auditory cloze probability task during functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), requiring lexical decisions on the sentence's final words. Semantic integration demands were implicitly modulated by presenting sentences with expected, unexpected, anomalous, or pseudoword endings. To elucidate networ

SUBMITTER: Nieberlein L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11669845 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature