Constructing Meaning
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This article reviews cognitive neuroscience research on visual and language processing to suggest an analogy between the neural interpolation mechanisms in perceptual processing and the constructive processes that underlie meaning construction in language. Traditional models of language comprehension as a decoding process are argued to involve an overattribution of the import of linguistic information, and an overly narrow view of the role of background and contextual knowledge. A review of a number of event-related brain potential (ERP) studies of language comprehension reveals an early sensitivity in the brain response to global contextual factors. These findings are consistent with a view of linguistic information as prompting meaning construction processes such as the activation of frames, the establishment of mappings, and the integration or blending of information from different domains.
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