Who was the Agent? The Neural Correlates of Reanalysis Processes during Sentence Comprehension

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Title:	Who was the Agent? The Neural Correlates of Reanalysis Processes during Sentence Comprehension
Author(s):	Hirotani, M.; Makuuchi, M.; Rüschemeyer, S.A. ; Friederici, A.D.
Publication year:	2011
Source:	Human Brain Mapping, vol. 32, iss. 11, (2011), pp. 1775-1787
ISSN:	1065-9471
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.21146
Publication type:	Article / Letter to editor
Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item : http://hdl.handle.net/2066/99889
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Subject:	Action, intention, and motor control DI-BCB_DCC_Theme 2: Perception, Action and Control
Organization:	SW OZ DCC CO
Journal title:	Human Brain Mapping
Volume:	vol. 32
Issue:	iss. 11
Page start:	p. 1775
Page end:	p. 1787
Abstract:	Sentence comprehension is a complex process. Besides identifying the meaning of each word and processing the syntactic structure of a sentence, it requires the computation of thematic information, that is, information about who did what to whom. The present fMRI study investigated the neural basis for thematic reanalysis (reanalysis of the thematic roles initially assigned to noun phrases in a sentence) and its interplay with syntactic reanalysis (reanalysis of the underlying syntactic structure originally constructed for a sentence). Thematic reanalysis recruited a network consisting of Broca's area, that is, the left pars triangularis (LPT), and the left posterior superior temporal gyrus, whereas only LPT showed greater sensitivity to syntactic reanalysis. These data provide direct evidence for a functional neuroanatomical basis for two linguistically motivated reanalysis processes during sentence comprehension.
Languages used:	English (eng)