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Incremental Comprehension Examined in Event-Related Potentials: Word-to-Text Integration and Structure Building
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Perfetti, Charles; Helder, Anne – Discourse Processes: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2021
The study of word-to-text integration (WTI) provides a window on incremental processes that link the meaning of a word to the preceding text. We review a research program using event-related potential indicators of WTI at sentence beginnings, thus localizing sources of integration to prior text meaning independently of the current sentence. The…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Sentences, Reading Processes, Cognitive Processes
Neural Correlates of Metonymy Resolution
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Rapp, Alexander M.; Erb, Michael; Grodd, Wolfgang; Bartels, Mathias; Markert, Katja – Brain and Language, 2011
Metonymies are exemplary models for complex semantic association processes at the sentence level. We investigated processing of metonymies using event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). During an 1.5 Tesla fMRI scan, 14 healthy subjects (12 female) read 124 short German sentences with either literal (like "Africa is arid"),…
Descriptors: Sentences, Semantics, Syntax, Cognitive Processes
Memory for Sentences: Implications for Human Associative Memory
Foss, Donald J.; Harwood, David A. – Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, 1975
This paper evaluates associative theories of sentence memory, based on the model of J.R. Anderson and G.H. Bower. A model of Human Associative Memory (HAM) is generalized and defined, and alternative models incorporating configural information are presented. (CK)
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Cognitive Processes, Learning Theories, Memorization