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ArticlePhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2020

Phase synchronization varies systematically with linguistic structure composition.

Jonathan R Brennan, Andrea E Martin

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Article in Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers.

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20 citing papers in PubMed.

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  5. Phase-dependent word perception emerges from region-specific sensitivity to the statistics of language.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  7. Lexical Surprisal Shapes the Time Course of Syntactic Structure Building.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024
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  8. Delta-Band Neural Responses to Individual Words Are Modulated by Sentence Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  9. Naturalistic Spoken Language Comprehension Is Supported by Alpha and Beta Oscillations.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023
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  18. Linguistic generalization and compositionality in modern artificial neural networks.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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  19. Modelling meaning composition from formalism to mechanism.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Jonathan R BrennanDepartment of Linguistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Andrea E MartinMax Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computation in neuronal assemblies is putatively reflected in the excitatory and inhibitory cycles of activation distributed throughout the brain. In speech and language processing, coordination of these cycles resulting in phase synchronization has been argued to reflect the integration of information on different timescales (e.g. segmenting acoustics signals to phonemic and syllabic representations; (Giraud and Poeppel 2012

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LinguisticsBrainCortical SynchronizationElectroencephalographyEvoked PotentialsHumansLanguageSpeechcompositionalityelectroencephalographylanguagenaturalistic language processingneural oscillationsphase synchronization

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PMID31840584
PMCPMC6939345

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