ArticleCerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991)2021
Endogenous Oscillations Time-Constrain Linguistic Segmentation: Cycling the Garden Path.
Article in Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Intonation Units in Spontaneous Speech Evoke a Neural Response.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Periodic fluctuations in reading times reflect multi-word-chunking.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Fast and Slow Rhythms of Naturalistic Reading Revealed by Combined Eye-Tracking and Electroencephalography.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2023Article
- Delta-band neural tracking primarily reflects rule-based chunking instead of semantic relatedness between words.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2023Article
- Using Motor Tempi to Understand Rhythm and Grammatical Skills in Developmental Language Disorder and Typical Language Development.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Speech is transient. To comprehend entire sentences, segments consisting of multiple words need to be memorized for at least a while. However, it has been noted previously that we struggle to memorize segments longer than approximately 2.7 s. We hypothesized that electrophysiological processing cycles within the delta band (<4 Hz) underlie this time constraint. Participants' EEG was recorded while they listened to temporarily ambiguous sentences. By manipulating the speech rate, we aimed at biasing participants' interpretation: At a slow rate, segmentation after 2.7 s would trigger a correct interpretation. In contrast, at a fast rate, segmentation after 2.7 s would trigger a wrong interpretation and thus an error later in the sentence. In line with the suggested time constraint, the phase of the delta-band oscillation at the critical point in the sentence mirrored segmentation on the level of single trials, as indicated by the amplitude of the P600 event-related brain potential (ERP) later in the sentence. The correlation between upstream delta-band phase and downstream P600 amplitude implies that segmentation took place when an underlying neural oscillator had reached a specific angle within its cycle, determining comprehension. We conclude that delta-band oscillations set an endogenous time constraint on segmentation.
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