Trial reportBrain and language2014
Multi-voxel pattern analysis of noun and verb differences in ventral temporal cortex.
Trial report in Brain and language, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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6 citing papers in PubMed.
- Syntax and the brain: language evolution as the missing link(ing theory)?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Patterns and networks of language control in bilingual language production.Brain structure & function · 2021Article
- Pre-Surgery Cognitive Performance and Voxel-Based Lesion-Symptom Mapping in Patients with Left High-Grade Glioma.Cancers · 2021Article
- Privileged Functional Connectivity between the Visual Word Form Area and the Language System.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2017Article
- Compositionality and the angular gyrus: A multi-voxel similarity analysis of the semantic composition of nouns and verbs.Neuropsychologia · 2015Article
- Form-to-expectation matching effects on first-pass eye movement measures during reading.Journal of experimental psychology. Human perception and performance · 2015Article
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Abstract
Recent evidence suggests a probabilistic relationship exists between the phonological/orthographic form of a word and its lexical-syntactic category (specifically nouns vs. verbs) such that syntactic prediction may elicit form-based estimates in sensory cortex. We tested this hypothesis by conducting multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) of fMRI data from early visual cortex (EVC), left ventral temporal (VT) cortex, and a subregion of the latter - the left mid fusiform gyrus (mid FG), sometimes called the "visual word form area." Crucially, we examined only those volumes sampled when subjects were predicting, but not viewing, nouns and verbs. This allowed us to investigate prediction effects in visual areas without any bottom-up orthographic input. We found that voxels in VT and mid FG, but not in EVC, were able to classify noun-predictive trials vs. verb-predictive trials in sentence contexts, suggesting that sentence-level predictions are sufficient to generate word form-based estimates in visual areas.
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