Chapter 74-75 Flashcards
Each step of syntactic structure building is paired with _____
A process of meaning composition
The neural signals elicited by composition reflect online structure- building computations that conform to ______
The grammar of some particular language
What brain areas do sentences produce stronger activation than lists?
The temporal poles - posterior temporal lobe & inferior frontal gyrus
What brain regions show increased activity response to two-word phrases?
Left anterior temporal lobe and ventromedial prefrontal cortex
Both artificial grammar and jabberwocky sentences may show an increase in ______ activity
BA 44
If neural activity reflects structure building, it in principle should engage every time ________
Words are combined into larger structures
When listening to storytelling, LATL activity increases for _____ words
Unexpected
According to a bottom-up strategy, words are only formed once ______
All the words that belong to the phrase have already been encountered
Results from studies suggest that for phrase formation, ______ are the best fit
Left-corner or bottom-up
Disrupting processing in the left inferior frontal gyrus causes ______
Errors in grammatical encoding
What parts of the auditory cortex respond robustly to speech?
Superior temporal gyrus and sulcus
What brain area responds to written language?
Visual word form area - a small part of the visual cortex on the ventral temporal surface
A set of brain regions in the _______ appear to support higher-level aspects of language processing
Frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes
Language activations tend to be stronger in the _____ hemisphere
left
Higher-level languages are more sensitive to _____
Meaning
The topography of the frontotemporal language network is ______
Similar across individuals
High-level language regions respond to linguistic input no matter ______
Which sensory modality it came from
High-level language regions form a ______
Functionally integrated system
There is probably not overlap between brain areas responsible for language and ______
Arithmetic and music perception
During comprehension, we look for ______
Matches the linguistic signal and stored knowledge representations
During production, we ______
Search our knowledge store for the right words and arrange them in a particular way to express a target idea
Lexicosemantic and combinatorial processing appear to be implemented _______
In a distributed fashion across the network
