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Malathi Thothathiri1, Albert Kim, John C Trueswell, Sharon L Thompson-Schill.
Abstract
The hypothesized role of Broca's area in sentence processing ranges from domain-general executive function to domain-specific computation that is specific to certain syntactic structures. We examined this issue by manipulating syntactic structure and conflict between syntactic and semantic cues in a sentence processing task. Functional neuroimaging revealed that activation within several Broca's area regions of interest reflected the parametric variation in syntactic-semantic conflict. These results suggest that Broca's area supports sentence processing by mediating between multiple incompatible constraints on sentence interpretation, consistent with this area's well-known role in conflict resolution in other linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. Copyright ÂEntities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22225974 PMCID: PMC3299904 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.004
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Brain Lang ISSN: 0093-934X Impact factor: 2.381