Neural mechanisms of anaphoric reference revealed by fMRI

A Hammer, BM Jansma, C Tempelmann… - Frontiers in …, 2011 - frontiersin.org
Pronouns are bound to their antecedents by matching syntactic and semantic information.
The aim of this functional magnetic resonance imaging study was to localize syntactic and …

When sex meets syntactic gender on a neural basis during pronoun processing

A Hammer, R Goebel, J Schwarzbach, TF Münte… - Brain research, 2007 - Elsevier
We used event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (erfMRI) to investigate the
neural basis of biological and syntactic gender integration during pronoun processing in …

fMRI evidence for strategic decision-making during resolution of pronoun reference

CT McMillan, R Clark, D Gunawardena, N Ryant… - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
Pronouns are extraordinarily common in daily language yet little is known about the neural
mechanisms that support decisions about pronoun reference. We propose a large-scale …

Neural correlates of pronoun processing: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

L El Ouardi, M Yeou, Y Faroqi-Shah - Brain and Language, 2023 - Elsevier
Pronouns are unique linguistic devices that allow for the expression of referential
relationships. Despite their communicative utility, the neural correlates of the operations …

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 …

Cortical processing of reference in language revealed by computational models

J Li, S Wang, WM Luh, L Pylkkänen, Y Yang, J Hale - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Our ability to ascertain which person a pronoun refers to is a central part of human language
understanding. Toward a process-based understanding of the brain's pronoun-resolution …

Neural correlates of semantic and syntactic processes in the comprehension of case marked pronouns: evidence from German and Dutch

MJA Lamers, BM Jansma, A Hammer, TF Münte - BMC neuroscience, 2006 - Springer
Background It is well known that both semantic and syntactic information play a role in
pronoun resolution in sentences. However, it is unclear what the relative contribution of …

Differences in the processing of anaphoric reference between closely related languages: neurophysiological evidence

MJ Lamers, BM Jansma, A Hammer, TF Münte - BMC neuroscience, 2008 - Springer
Background The present study examines the involvement of syntactic and
semantic/conceptual processes in the comprehension of pronouns in Dutch using the …

The neuronal correlates of indeterminate sentence comprehension: an fMRI study

RG De Almeida, L Riven, C Manouilidou… - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
Sentences such as The author started the book are indeterminate because they do not make
explicit what the subject (the author) started doing with the object (the book). In principle …

Interplay of meaning, syntax and working memory during pronoun resolution investigated by ERPs

A Hammer, BM Jansma, M Lamers, TF Münte - Brain research, 2008 - Elsevier
Event-related potentials were used to investigate the interaction of verbal working memory
and gender information during pronoun resolution. Gender information is supposed to be …