Grammatical Relations in the Listening Brain
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Using an audio-book as a stimulus, and timelocked hemodynamic response modelling of individual events, we show that grammatical subjects and grammatical objects can be differentiated based on fMRI images acquired immediately after hearing a word. A searchlight analysis suggests that grammatical relation information is encoded in the superior and middle temporal gyrus. This finding confirms earlier suggestions that these regions perform combinatorial grammatical processing during naturalistic language comprehension.
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