Chapter 74-75

Question 1

Each step of syntactic structure building is paired with _____

Answer 1

A process of meaning composition

Question 2

The neural signals elicited by composition reflect online structure-­ building computations that conform to ______

Answer 2

The grammar of some particular language

Question 3

What brain areas do sentences produce stronger activation than lists?

Answer 3

The temporal poles - posterior temporal lobe & inferior frontal gyrus

Question 4

What brain regions show increased activity response to two-word phrases?

Answer 4

Left anterior temporal lobe and ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Question 5

Both artificial grammar and jabberwocky sentences may show an increase in ______ activity

Answer 5

BA 44

Question 6

If neural activity reflects structure building, it in principle should engage e­very time ________

Answer 6

Words are combined into larger structures

Question 7

When listening to storytelling, LATL activity increases for _____ words

Answer 7

Unexpected

Question 8

According to a bottom-up strategy, words are only formed once ______

Answer 8

All the words that belong to the phrase have already been encountered

Question 9

Results from studies suggest that for phrase formation, ______ are the best fit

Answer 9

Left-corner or bottom-up

Question 10

Disrupting processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus causes ______

Answer 10

Errors in grammatical encoding

Question 11

What parts of the auditory cortex respond robustly to speech?

Answer 11

Superior temporal gyrus and sulcus

Question 12

What brain area responds to written language?

Answer 12

Visual word form area - a small part of the visual cortex on the ventral temporal surface

Question 13

A set of brain regions in the _______ appear to support higher-level aspects of language processing

Answer 13

Frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes

Question 14

Language activations tend to be stronger in the _____ hemisphere

Answer 14

left

Question 15

Higher-level languages are more sensitive to _____

Answer 15

Meaning

Question 16

The topography of the frontotemporal language network is ______

Answer 16

Similar across individuals

Question 17

High-level language regions respond to linguistic input no matter ______

Answer 17

Which sensory modality it came from

Question 18

High-level language regions form a ______

Answer 18

Functionally integrated system

Question 19

There is probably not overlap between brain areas responsible for language and ______

Answer 19

Arithmetic and music perception

Question 20

During comprehension, we look for ______

Answer 20

Matches the linguistic signal and stored knowledge representations

Question 21

During production, we ______

Answer 21

Search our knowledge store for the right words and arrange them in a particular way to express a target idea

Question 22

Lexicosemantic and combinatorial processing appear to be implemented _______

Answer 22

In a distributed fashion across the network