We conducted a meta-analysis of 78 task-based functional magnetic resonance imaging
(fMRI) studies (1976 total participants) to reveal underlying brain activations and their …

A key challenge in understanding stories and conversations is the comprehension of
'anaphora', words that refer back to previously mentioned words or concepts ('antecedents') …

Discourse comprehension involves the construction of a mental representation of the
situation model as well as a continuous update of this representation. This mental update is …

Speech comprehension is a complex process involving multiple stages, such as decoding of
phonetic units, recognizing words, and understanding sentences and passages. In this …

Pronouns are unique linguistic devices that allow for the expression of referential
relationships. Despite their communicative utility, the neural correlates of the operations …

During comprehension, language users not only immediately integrate information from
local sentence context, but also information from global discourse context for full …

This study examined the effect of emotional context on the semantic memory of subsequent
emotional words during discourse comprehension in two eye-tracking experiments. Four …

The organizational structure of music is similar to that found in language, involving a large
number of complicated hierarchical and embedded structures. The factors inducing …

This study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to investigate how predicting upcoming
words differ when contextual information used to generate the prediction is from the …

Background Prior investigations of language functions have focused on the response
profiles of particular brain regions. However, the specialized and static view of language …