The phrase "preceding context" is correct and usable in written English.
It is a phrase used to refer to information or ideas previously discussed that provide the background for a situation. For example: In the preceding context, we discussed how to make a delicious apple pie.
In this study we combined event-related fMRI with a parametric manipulation of the go nogo paradigm to examine the effect of preceding context on inhibitory processes.
Both measures revealed a continued-subject bias in the interpretation of pronouns: Children tended to interpret a pronoun as coreferential with the subject (and first-mentioned character) in the preceding context.
Through careful design we were able to use the same final image transitions across predictable and unpredictable conditions, ensuring that any differences in neural responses were due only to preceding context and not to the images themselves.
Experiments 2 and 3 employed a fairly novel context design that enabled us to compare ERPs evoked by identical auditory material to differing contextual expectations: Experiment 2 focussed on constructions in which an inanimate Actor acts upon an inanimate Undergoer, whereas Experiment 3 examined whether and how a preceding context modulates the prediction for an ideal Actor.
These results suggested that, regardless of the preceding context, the processor is better prepared to access the dominant meanings of an ambiguous word.
The N400 has been interpreted as a default brain response indexing the retrieval of semantic information for a stimulus given preceding context (Brouwer & Hoeks, 2013; Kutas & Federmeier, 2011).
Neural responses to visual stimuli are modulated by the preceding temporal context, a phenomenon know as adaptation1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9.
The Content of a formula, with respect to a structure and context, is a function whose value at any time-world pair is the truth-value of the formula with respect to the preceding structure, context, time, and world.
Final DDs were hence acoustically even more similar to the preceding acoustic context than final tonic chords were.
Experiment 2b: Chord targets incongruous with the preceding word context elicited activations in the right posterior STS (z-value: 3.32; 40, −45, 3) (see Figure 5B).
Both music and language targets incongruous to the preceding affective context elicited an increased N400, a classic indicator of semantic processing [11], [12].
