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U. Noppeney, C. J. Price.

An fMRI Study of Syntactic Adaptation

fMRIDC Accession Number: 2-2004-115RC
Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 2004 May ;16(4): p.702-713
PubMed ID: 15165357 (off-site link)
 Study Meta-Data

It is easier to produce and comprehend a series of sentences when they have similar syntactic structures. This "syntactic priming" effect was investigated during silent sentence reading using (i) blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) response as a physiological measure in an f MRI study and (ii) reading time as a behavioral measure in a complementary self paced reading paradigm. We found that reading time and left anterior temporal activation were decreased when subjects read sentences with similar relative to dissimilar syntactic forms. Thus, syntactic adaptation during sentence comprehension is demonstrated in a neural area that has previously been linked to both lexical semantic and sentence processing.

Supplemental Information

Language: Engligh
Country: United Kingdom
Magnetic Field Strength: 2 T
Scanner Manufacturer: Siemens
Subjects: 12
Functional Runs: 2
Has behavioral data
Has raw image data
Has high-res images
Has preprocessed image data
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