Neural tracking of phrases in spoken language comprehension is automatic and task-dependent.

ABSTRACT: Linguistic phrases are tracked in sentences even though there is no one-to-one acoustic phrase marker in the physical signal. This phenomenon suggests an automatic tracking of abstract linguistic structure that is endogenously generated by the brain. However, all studies investigating linguistic tracking compare conditions where either relevant information at linguistic timescales is available, or where this information is absent altogether (e.g., sentences versus word lists during passive listening). It is therefore unclear whether tracking at phrasal timescales is related to the content of language, or rather, results as a consequence of attending to the timescales that happen to match behaviourally relevant information. To investigate this question, we presented participants with senten

SUBMITTER: Ten Oever S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9282854 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature