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- Title
- How the brain responds to any : an MEG study
- Related
- Brain and language, Vol. 120, Issue 1, (2012), p.66-72
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.08.006
- Publisher
- Academic Press
- Date
- 2012
- Author/Creator
- Tesan, Graciela
- Author/Creator
- Johnson, Blake W
- Author/Creator
- Crain, Stephen
- Description
- The word any may appear in some sentences, but not in others. For example, any is permitted in sentences that contain the word nobody, as in Nobody ate any fruit. However, in a minimally different context any seems strikingly anomalous: "Everybody ate any fruit. The aim of the present study was to investigate how the brain responds to the word any in such minimally different contexts - where it is permitted (licensed) and where it is not permitted (unlicensed). Brain responses were measured from adult readers using magnetoencephalography (MEG). The results showed significantly larger responses to permissible contexts in the left posterior temporal areas between 400-500 ms and 590-660 ms. These results clarify the anatomy and timing of brain processes that contribute to our judgment that a word such as any is or is not permitted in a given context.
- Description
- 7 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- 200400 Linguistics
- Subject Keyword
- Brain imaging in language
- Subject Keyword
- Magnetoencephalography
- Subject Keyword
- Morphosyntactic processing
- Subject Keyword
- Negative polarity items (NPI)
- Subject Keyword
- Posterior temporal gyrus
- Subject Keyword
- Semantic processing
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Linguistics
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/198288
- Identifier
- mq:23125
- Identifier
- ISSN:0093-934X
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2011010362
- Identifier
- mq_res-ext-wos299366100007
- Language
- eng
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