Differential contributions of left-hemispheric language regions to basic semantic composition.

ABSTRACT: Semantic composition, the ability to combine single words to form complex meanings, is a core feature of human language. Despite growing interest in the basis of semantic composition, the neural correlates and the interaction of regions within this network remain a matter of debate. We designed a well-controlled two-word fMRI paradigm in which phrases only differed along the semantic dimension while keeping syntactic information alike. Healthy participants listened to meaningful ("fresh apple"), anomalous ("awake apple") and pseudoword phrases ("awake gufel") while performing an implicit and an explicit semantic task. We identified neural signatures for distinct processes during basic semantic composition. When lexical information is kept constant across conditions and the evaluation of ph

SUBMITTER: Graessner A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910266 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature