Establishing propositional truth-value in counterfactual and real-world contexts during sentence comprehension: Differential sensitivity of the left and right inferior frontal gyri

Establishing propositional truth-value in counterfactual and real- world contexts during sentence comprehension: Differential sensitivity of the left and right inferior frontal gyri

If the real world were irrelevant, so to speak: The role of propositional truth-value in counterfactual sentence comprehension.

Propositional truth-value can be a defining feature of a sentence's relevance to the unfolding discourse, and establishing propositional truth-value in context can be key to successful interpretation. In the current study, we investigate its role in the comprehension of counterfactual conditionals, which describe imaginary consequences of hypothetical events, and are thought to require keeping ...

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If the real world were irrelevant, so to speak: The role of propositional truth-value in counterfactual sentence comprehension Citation for published version: Nieuwland, MS & Martin , AE 2012, 'If the real world were irrelevant, so to speak: The role of propositional truth-value in counterfactual sentence comprehension' Cognition, vol 122, no. 1, pp. 102-109. General rights Copyright for the pu...

When Elephants Fly: Differential Sensitivity of Right and Left Inferior Frontal Gyri to Discourse and World Knowledge

Both local discourse and world knowledge are known to influence sentence processing. We investigated how these two sources of information conspire in language comprehension. Two types of critical sentences, correct and world knowledge anomalies, were preceded by either a neutral or a local context. The latter made the world knowledge anomalies more acceptable or plausible. We predicted that the...

Comprehension of factual, nonfactual, and counterfactual conditionals by Iranian EFL learners

A considerable amount of studies have been established on conditional reasoning supporting mental model theory of propositional reasoning. Mental model theory proposed by Johnson- larid and Byrne is an explanation of someone's thought process about how something occurs in the real world. Conditional reasoning as a kind of reasoning is the way to speak about possibilities or probabilities. The a...