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The Timecourse of Sentence Processing in the Brain

Matthias SchlesewskyAdrian StaubIna Bornkessel-schlesewskyIna Bornkessel-schlesewsky

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eye-trackingMEGhierarchical processingmedicine.diagnostic_testPerspective (graphical)Eye movementsentence processingMagnetoencephalographyElectroencephalographySemanticsSentence processingbottom-uptop-downmedicineEye trackingEEGpredictive codingPsychologysyntaxsemanticsSentenceCognitive psychology

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This chapter discusses the current state of the art with regard to the timecourse of sentence processing in the brain. It outlines the challenges associated with studying timecourse information at the sentence level from a neurobiological perspective and describes competing theoretical and empirical perspectives in this domain. In addition to drawing on findings from neurophysiological methods (electroencephalography [EEG]; magnetoencephalography [MEG]), insights from eye movement measures during natural reading are also taken into account. The chapter concludes that while we are currently unable to make absolute claims about the timecourse of sentence processing from a neurobiological perspective, current evidence supports a cascaded architecture that dynamically combines top-down (including predictive) and bottom-up information sources.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2015-01-01
https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-407794-2.00049-3