General Summary of Sentence Comprehension

Question 1

pMTG may underlie earliest stage of sentence processing: activation of _____ and _____ properties when you hear a word.

Answer 1

semantic and syntactic

Question 2

T or F: Lexical semantic features may be distributed over multiple content- specific brain sites.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

Syntactic and combinatorial properties of words may be stored in ____

Answer 3

pMTG

Question 4

Input from pMTG, aSTG and adjacent BA38 work together to compute ________ organization of sentences

Answer 4

hierarchical

Question 5

(inferior portions) aSTS, aMGT and potions of the temporal pole may compute _______ structure of the sentence

Answer 5

semantic

Question 6

(inferior portions) aSTS, aMGT and potions of the temporal pole may compute _______ structure of the sentence

Answer 6

semantic

Question 7

Auditory verbal short term memory in the pSTS , pSTG and angular gyrus (BA39) may be used to activate the phonological form of words to allow _____ to help with long sentences

Answer 7

internal replay

Question 8

T or F: Impaired AVSTM results in poor sentence comprehnsion

Answer 8

False not necessarily - only certain types of sentences may be affected, those requiring reanalysis based on verbatim recall.

Question 9

Describe the six hypothesis about the function of Brocas area (group into 3 hypothesis about computing linguistic structure and 3 hypothesis about general cognitive processing.

Answer 9

See last slides of sentence comp 4