Incremental Language Comprehension Difficulty Predicts Activity in the Language Network but Not the Multiple Demand Network.

ABSTRACT: What role do domain-general executive functions play in human language comprehension? To address this question, we examine the relationship between behavioral measures of comprehension and neural activity in the domain-general "multiple demand" (MD) network, which has been linked to constructs like attention, working memory, inhibitory control, and selection, and implicated in diverse goal-directed behaviors. Specifically, functional magnetic resonance imaging data collected during naturalistic story listening are compared with theory-neutral measures of online comprehension difficulty and incremental processing load (reading times and eye-fixation durations). Critically, to ensure that variance in these measures is driven by features of the linguistic stimulus rather than reflecting parti

SUBMITTER: Wehbe L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8328211 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature