The role of left angular gyrus in the representation of linguistic composition relations.

ABSTRACT: Language comprehension is compositional: individual words are combined structurally to form larger meaning representations. The neural basis for compositionality is at the center of a growing body of recent research. Previous work has largely used univariate analysis to investigate the question, a technique that could potentially lead to the loss of fined-grained information due to the procedure of averaging over neural responses. In a functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment, the present study examined different types of composition relations in Chinese phrases, using a 1-back composition relation probe (CRP) task and a 1-back word probe (WP) task. We first analyzed the data using the multivariate representation similarity analysis, which better captures the fine-grained represent

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8996362 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature