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ArticleNeuropsychologia2021

The limited role of hippocampal declarative memory in transient semantic activation during online language processing.

Sarah Brown-Schmidt, Sun-Joo Cho, Nazbanou Nozari, Nathaniel Klooster, Melissa Duff

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Article in Neuropsychologia, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors.

Sarah Brown-SchmidtVanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, United States. Electronic address: sarah.brown-schmidt@vanderbilt.edu.
Sun-Joo ChoVanderbilt University, Department of Psychology and Human Development, United States.
Nazbanou NozariCarnegie Mellon University, Department of Psychology, United States.
Nathaniel KloosterUniversity of Pennsylvania, Department of Neurology, United States.
Melissa DuffVanderbilt University Medical Center, Department of Hearing and Speech Science, United States.

Funding

Overall: Eunice Kennedy Shriver Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center at VanderbiltP50HD103537 · NICHD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI Lea K Davis · 2020 to 2026
$10.3M
Postdoctoral Training in Translational Neurorehabilitation ResearchT32HD071844 · NICHD · ALBERT EINSTEIN HEALTHCARE NETWORK · PI WHYTE, JOHN · 2013 to 2022
$2.2M
Language processing and the hippocampal declarative memory systemR01DC011755 · NIDCD · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER · PI BROWN-SCHMIDT, SARAH, DUFF, MELISSA C · 2012 to 2016
$1.9M
NICHD NIH HHS P50 HD103537NICHD NIH HHS T32 HD071844NIDCD NIH HHS R01 DC011755
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Recent findings point to a role for hippocampus in the moment-by-moment processing of language, including the use and generation of semantic features in certain contexts. What role the hippocampus might play in the processing of semantic relations in spoken language comprehension, however, is unknown. Here we test patients with bilateral hippocampal damage and dense amnesia in order to examine the necessity of hippocampus for lexico-semantic mapping processes in spoken language understanding. In two visual-world eye-tracking experiments, we monitor eye movements to images that are semantically related to spoken words and sentences. We find no impairment in amnesia, relative to matched healthy comparison participants. These findings suggest, at least for close semantic links and simple language comprehension tasks, a lack of necessity for hippocampus in lexico-semantic mapping between spoken words and simple pictures.

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LanguageSemanticsAmnesiaHippocampusHumansMemoryAmnesiaEye-trackingHippocampusPredictionSemanticWord recognition

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PMID33346044
PMCPMC7882034

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