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Conceptual Combination During Sentence Comprehension

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: This experiment examined the time course of integration of modifier-noun (conceptual) combinations during auditory sentence comprehension using cross-modal lexical priming. The study revealed that during ongoing comprehension, there is initial activation of features of the noun prior to activation of (emergent) features of the entire conceptual combination. These results support compositionality in conceptual combination; that is, they indicate that features of the individual words constituting a conceptual combination are activated prior to combination of the words into a new concept.

Source: Psychological Science

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2007.01912.x

Authors: David Swinney, Tracy Love, Matthew Walenski, Edward E. Smith

Institutions: University of California San Diego, San Diego State University, Columbia University

Language: English

Topic: Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders

Awards: Sentence Processing in Normal and Aphasic Populations, G2744543456, Frontotemporal Dementias: Genotypes and Phenotypes, BRAIN DAMAGE EFFECTS ON LANGUAGE PROCESSING, Neurobiology of Auditory Language Perception