Finding the right word: Hemispheric asymmetries in the use of sentence context information

EW Wlotko, KD Federmeier - Neuropsychologia, 2007 - Elsevier
The cerebral hemispheres have been shown to be differentially sensitive to sentence-level
information; in particular, it has been suggested that only the left hemisphere (LH) makes …

What is right-hemisphere contribution to phonological, lexico-semantic, and sentence processing?: Insights from a meta-analysis

M Vigneau, V Beaucousin, PY Hervé, G Jobard, L Petit… - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
To evaluate the relative role of left and right hemispheres (RH) and describe the functional
anatomy of RH during ortholinguistic tasks, we re-analyzed the 128 papers of a former left …

On sense and reference: Examining the functional neuroanatomy of referential processing

MS Nieuwland, KM Petersson, JJA Van Berkum - NeuroImage, 2007 - Elsevier
In an event-related fMRI study, we examined the cortical networks involved in establishing
reference during language comprehension. We compared BOLD responses to sentences …

Sign and speech: amodal commonality in left hemisphere dominance for comprehension of sentences

KL Sakai, Y Tatsuno, K Suzuki, H Kimura, Y Ichida - Brain, 2005 - academic.oup.com
The neural basis of functional lateralization in language processing is a fundamental issue
in systems neuroscience. We used functional MRI (fMRI) to examine hemispheric …

The neuropragmatics of'simple'utterance comprehension: An ERP review

JJA Van Berkum - Semantics and pragmatics: From experiment to …, 2009 - pure.mpg.de
In this chapter, I review my EEG research on comprehending sentences in context from a
pragmatics-oriented perspective. The review is organized around four questions:(1) When …

The role of left inferior frontal and superior temporal cortex in sentence comprehension: localizing syntactic and semantic processes

AD Friederici, SA Rüschemeyer, A Hahne… - Cerebral …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
An event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) paradigm was used to
specify those brain areas supporting the processing of sentence-level semantic and …

The extended language network: a meta‐analysis of neuroimaging studies on text comprehension

EC Ferstl, J Neumann, C Bogler… - Human brain …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Language processing in context requires more than merely comprehending words
and sentences. Important subprocesses are inferences for bridging successive utterances …

Semantic integration in sentences and discourse: Evidence from the N400

JJA Berkum, P Hagoort, CM Brown - Journal of cognitive …, 1999 - direct.mit.edu
In two ERP experiments we investigated how and when the language comprehension
system relates an incoming word to semantic representations of an unfolding local sentence …

Cerebral mechanisms for suppression of inappropriate information during sentence comprehension

ME Faust, MA Gernsbacher - Brain and language, 1996 - Elsevier
In two experiments we investigated the extent to which interference from contextually
inappropriate information was attenuated or suppressed over time in the two cerebral …

Understanding metaphoric sentences in the two cerebral hemispheres.

M Faust, S Weisper - Brain and cognition, 2000 - europepmc.org
Previous studies indicate that the right hemisphere (RH) has a unique role in maintaining
activation of metaphoric single word meanings. The present study investigated hemispheric …