Colas Fournet, Jonathan Mirault, Mathieu Declerck, Jonathan Grainger
{"title":"Fast structural priming of grammatical decisions during reading","authors":"Colas Fournet, Jonathan Mirault, Mathieu Declerck, Jonathan Grainger","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2254425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2254425","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In two grammatical decision experiments, we used fast-priming as a novel method for uncovering the syntactic processes involved in written sentence comprehension while limiting the influence of strategic processes. Targets were sequences of four words that could be grammatically correct or not. Targets (e.g. they see the moon) were preceded by the brief (170 ms) presentation of four types of prime: (1) same syntactic structure / same verb (you see a friend); (2) same structure / different verb (she writes a book); (3) different structure / same verb (he sees him now); or (4) different structure / different verb (stay in our hotel). Same structure primes facilitated decisions to grammatical targets in error rates, and this effect did not significantly interact with the facilitatory effect of a shared verb. These results provide evidence for structural priming of sentence reading in conditions that greatly limit any role for strategic processing.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48993402","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, I. Laka, Martin Meyer, B. Bickel
{"title":"Incremental sentence processing is guided by a preference for agents: EEG evidence from Basque","authors":"Arrate Isasi-Isasmendi, Sebastian Sauppe, Caroline Andrews, I. Laka, Martin Meyer, B. Bickel","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2250023","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Comprehenders across languages tend to interpret role-ambiguous arguments as the subject or the agent of a sentence during parsing. However, the evidence for such a subject/agent preference rests on the comprehension of transitive, active-voice sentences where agents/subjects canonically precede patients/objects. The evidence is thus potentially confounded by the canonical order of arguments. Transitive sentence stimuli additionally conflate the semantic agent role and the syntactic subject function. We resolve these two confounds in an experiment on the comprehension of intransitive sentences in Basque. When exposed to sentence-initial role-ambiguous arguments, comprehenders preferentially interpreted these as agents and had to revise their interpretation when the verb disambiguated to patient-initial readings. The revision was reflected in an N400 component in ERPs and a decrease in power in the alpha and lower beta bands. This finding suggests that sentence processing is guided by a top-down heuristic to interpret ambiguous arguments as agents, independently of word order and independently of transitivity.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43196826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effects of referential structure on pronoun interpretation","authors":"Jina Song, E. Kaiser","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2250481","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2250481","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Pronoun interpretation is guided by various factors. While most previously-investigated factors involve properties occurring before the pronoun, less attention has been paid to properties of the pronoun-containing clause. We investigate whether pronoun interpretation is influenced by the referential structure of the pronoun-containing clause (i.e. whether another referent from the preceding clause is mentioned), which contributes to discourse coherence. We report three experiments showing referential structure effects: whether subject-position pronouns are ultimately interpreted as referring to the preceding subject or object depends on whether the clause contains another pronoun (e.g. she called Lisa vs. she called her). More specifically, subject-position pronouns exhibit a stronger object preference when only one of the prior antecedents is mentioned, compared to when both are mentioned. We show that this effect is separate from effects of verb semantics and cannot be reduced to semantic or syntactic parallelism effects. Implications for models of pronoun resolution are discussed.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49616253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The significance of supramodality for embodied cognition: a commentary on Calzavarini (2023)","authors":"E. Machery","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2247500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2247500","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45482280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time course of Chinese compound word recognition as revealed by ERP data","authors":"Yuling Wang, Zuowen Li, Minghu Jiang, Fei Long, Yunlong Huang, Xinyi Xu","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2245074","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2245074","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Previous studies have yielded conflicting results regarding the onset of semantic processing in compound word recognition. This study examined the role of semantics in morphological processing using event-related potentials (ERP) recorded for Chinese compound targets primed by W+M+, W−M+, W−M− (W = whole-word semantics, M = morpheme meaning, + = congruent, and − = incongruent), semantically related and unrelated primes. Two experiments were conducted. In Experiment 1 of a masked priming lexical-decision task (SOA = 50 ms), EEG results demonstrated that the brain was sensitive to semantic information as early as between 100 and 250 ms. In Experiment 2 of an unmasked priming lexical-decision task (SOA = 200 ms), data confirmed early semantic access. The two EEG experiments also showed that the semantics of constituent morphemes may have little bearing on compound recognition. Overall, these results seem to converge with a form-and-meaning account of compound recognition.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44865893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Heming Strømholt Bremnes, Jakub Szymanik, Giosuè Baggio
{"title":"The interplay of computational complexity and memory load during quantifier verification","authors":"Heming Strømholt Bremnes, Jakub Szymanik, Giosuè Baggio","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2236253","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2236253","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Formal analysis of the minimal computational complexity of verification algorithms for natural language quantifiers implies that different classes of quantifiers demand the engagement of different cognitive resources for their verification. In particular, sentences containing proportional quantifiers, e.g. “most”, provably require a memory component, whereas non-proportional quantifiers, e.g. “all”, “three”, do not. In an ERP study, we tested whether previously observed differences between these classes were modulated by memory load. Participants performed a picture-sentence verification task while they had to remember a string of 2 or 4 digits to be compared to a second string at the end of a trial. Relative to non-proportional quantifiers, proportional quantifiers elicited a sentence-internal sustained negativity. Additionally, an interaction between Digit-Load and Quantifier-Class was observed at the sentence-final word. Our results suggest that constraints on cognitive resources deployed during human sentence processing and verification are of the same nature as formal constraints on abstract machines.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49013579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Different encoding of legal and illegal speech sequences: beyond phonetic planning?","authors":"A. Jouen, C. Fougeron, M. Laganaro","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2241580","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2241580","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Transforming linguistic codes into articulated speech is thought to rely on different phonetic (motor speech) encoding/planning processes for practiced sequences and for unpracticed/uncommon speech sequences. However, transforming phonological codes into articulation likely involves processes beyond phonetic planning, going on even during articulation. Here we sought behavioural, acoustic and brain dynamics differences in the preparation of matched common/legal and uncommon/illegal speech sequences in 20 participants. Illegal syllables were initialised faster – contrary to what is generally expected -, had longer acoustic duration and differed from legal syllables in ERP waveform amplitudes and microstates in a time-window preceding and following the vocal onset. The pattern of results suggests that speech plans are of different size for legal and illegal syllables, and impact on the parametrisation of the corresponding motor programmes, allowing fast execution of the segmentalised illegal sequences for which incremental speech programming continues during articulation.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41522065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving thoughts: emotion concepts from the perspective of context dependent embodied simulation","authors":"P. Winkielman, Joshua D. Davis, S. Coulson","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2236731","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2236731","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This review article presents our perspective on psychological and physiological mechanisms underlying concepts from the domain of affect, emotion, and motivation. We suggest that these concepts are linked to sensorimotor and interoceptive systems, and as such represent a paradigmatic example of embodied conceptual processing. In view of recent debates about the scope of embodiment, however, we argue that the use of grounded resources in emotion concepts is flexible and context dependent. The degree to which embodied resources are engaged during conceptual processing depends upon multiple factors, including an individual's task, goals, resources, as well as constraints both temporal and situational. In addition, we highlight the extent to which conceptual understanding of emotion, and its specific embodiment, is shaped by social and cultural influences. Accordingly, we call for research that more fully incorporates higher-order psychological factors into the study of the physiological and neural mechanisms that underpin emotion concepts.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48987478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Illusions of plausibility in adjuncts and co-ordination","authors":"Ian Cunnings, P. Sturt","doi":"10.1080/23273798.2023.2235033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/23273798.2023.2235033","url":null,"abstract":"Illusions of grammaticality, where ungrammatical sentences are misperceived as grammatical (e.g. The key to the cabinets were rusty), have been widely studied during language comprehension. Such grammatical illusions have been in fl uential in debate surrounding so-called representational and retrieval-based accounts of linguistic dependency resolution. Whether analogous illusions of plausibility occur at the level of semantic interpretation has only recently begun to be examined, and thus far, these illusions have been restricted to a narrow range of linguistic phenomena. In two eye-tracking during reading experiments (n = 48 in each) and two self-paced reading experiments (n = 192 in each) we examined the possibility of semantic illusions during the processing of adjuncts and co-ordination. Across experiments, our results suggest illusions of plausibility during dependency resolution, though interference e ff ects were clearer in adjuncts than co-ordination. We argue that our fi ndings are more compatible with retrieval-based rather than representational accounts of linguistic dependency resolution.","PeriodicalId":48782,"journal":{"name":"Language Cognition and Neuroscience","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2023-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48442563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}