Predication drives verb cortical signatures

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• dc.contributor.author Hernández Pardo, Mireia
• dc.contributor.author Fairhall, Scott L.
• dc.contributor.author Lenci, Alessandro
• dc.contributor.author Baronai, Marco
• dc.contributor.author Caramazza, Alfonso
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-03-30T10:27:02Z
• dc.date.available 2020-03-30T10:27:02Z
• dc.date.issued 2014
• dc.description.abstract Verbs and nouns are fundamental units of language, but their neural instantiation remains poorly understood. Neuro- psychological research has shown that nouns and verbs can be damaged independently of each other, and neuroimaging re- search has found that several brain regions respond differen- tially to the two word classes. However, the semantic–lexical properties of verbs and nouns that drive these effects remain unknown. Here we show that the most likely candidate is pre- dication: a core lexical feature involved in binding constituent arguments (boy, candies) into a unified syntactic–semantic structure expressing a proposition (the boy likes the candies). We used functional neuroimaging to test whether the intrinsic “predication-building” function of verbs is what drives the verb–noun distinction in the brain. We first identified verb- preferring regions with a localizer experiment including verbs and nouns. Then, we examined whether these regions are sensitive to transitivity—an index measuring its tendency to select for a direct object. Transitivity is a verb-specific prop- erty lying at the core of its predication function. Neural activ- ity in the left posterior middle temporal and inferior frontal gyri correlates with transitivity, indicating sensitivity to predi- cation. This represents the first evidence that grammatical class preference in the brain is driven by a wordʼs function to build predication structures.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was also supported by a Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowship within the 7th European Community Framework Programme (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 271671 awarded to Mireia Hernández.
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• dc.identifier.citation Hernandez M, Fairhall SL, Lenci A, Baronai M, Camarazza A. Predication drives verb cortical signatures. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2014 Aug;26(8):1829-39. DOI: 10.1162/jocn_a_00598
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/jocn_a_00598
• dc.identifier.issn 0898-929X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44098
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher MIT Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 2014 Aug;26(8):1829-39
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/271671
• dc.rights © MIT Press (Publisher version at http://mitpress.mit.edu)
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• dc.subject.other Cognició
• dc.subject.other Llenguatge i llengües--Aspectes fisiològics
• dc.subject.other Neurolingüística
• dc.title Predication drives verb cortical signatures
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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