Distinct Neural Networks Relate to Common and Speaker-Specific Language Priors.

ABSTRACT: Effective natural communication requires listeners to incorporate not only very general linguistic principles which evolved during a lifetime but also other information like the specific individual language use of a particular interlocutor. Traditionally, research has focused on the general linguistic rules, and brain science has shown a left hemispheric fronto-temporal brain network related to this processing. The present fMRI research explores speaker-specific individual language use because it is unknown whether this processing is supported by similar or distinct neural structures. Twenty-eight participants listened to sentences of persons who used more easy or difficult language. This was done by manipulating the proportion of easy SOV vs. complex OSV sentences for each speaker. Furthe

SUBMITTER: Kroczek LOH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8153046 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature