To investigate the possibility that brain responses to semantic processing in G-SLI were impaired, in Experiment 2 (see materials and methods) we investigated brain responses to sentences with semantic violations (*Barbie bakes the people in the kitchen).
In order to ensure that these effects are not attributable to any low-level differences between sentences, such as length, volume, and pitch, we also examined the hemodynamic responses to sentences and pictures in early sensory areas.
To estimate the responses to sentences and nonwords, we used all but the first run to define the fROIs and the first run to estimate the responses, so that all the data used to estimate response magnitudes were independent of the data used for ROI definition.
However, these studies examined responses to sentence length materials that were either intelligible or unintelligible.
He offered the thought experiment of a man who is isolated in a room in which he produces Chinese sentences as "output" in response to Chinese sentences he receives as "input" by following the rules of a program for engaging in a Chinese conversation e.g., by using a simple conversation manual.
Two main findings emerge from younger and older adults' neural activity during sentence processing: First, older adults employ a similar network of regions during sentence comprehension as younger adults this is evident from the activity in response to NP sentences and also the LH frontotemporal network activated in response to AP items.
When it came to the papal encyclical, however, he was positively curt, confining his response to three sentences.
In a direct response to the sentences, American senators moved to block future deliveries of military aid.
Your brain somehow appreciates that there are two meanings to a word like 'shell.' " Owen eventually identified two vegetative patients whose brains showed the same activity in response to ambiguous sentences as the brains of healthy volunteers.
