Decoding the Real-Time Neurobiological Properties of Incremental Semantic Interpretation.

ABSTRACT: Communication through spoken language is a central human capacity, involving a wide range of complex computations that incrementally interpret each word into meaningful sentences. However, surprisingly little is known about the spatiotemporal properties of the complex neurobiological systems that support these dynamic predictive and integrative computations. Here, we focus on prediction, a core incremental processing operation guiding the interpretation of each upcoming word with respect to its preceding context. To investigate the neurobiological basis of how semantic constraints change and evolve as each word in a sentence accumulates over time, in a spoken sentence comprehension study, we analyzed the multivariate patterns of neural activity recorded by source-localized electro/magnetoe

SUBMITTER: Choi HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7727355 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature