Sentential negation of abstract and concrete conceptual categories: a brain decoding multivariate pattern analysis study.

ABSTRACT: We rarely use abstract and concrete concepts in isolation but rather embedded within a linguistic context. To examine the modulatory impact of the linguistic context on conceptual processing, we isolated the case of sentential negation polarity, in which an interaction occurs between the syntactic operator not and conceptual information in the negation's scope. Previous studies suggested that sentential negation of concrete action-related concepts modulates activation in the fronto-parieto-temporal action representation network. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging study, we examined the influence of negation on a wider spectrum of meanings, by factorially manipulating sentence polarity (affirmative, negative) and fine-grained abstract (mental state, emotion, mathematics) and conc

SUBMITTER: Ghio M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6015826 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature