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- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Cognitive neuroscience of natural language use: introduction
- 2 fMRI methods for studying the neurobiology of language under naturalistic conditions
- 3 Why study connected speech production?
- 4 Situation models in naturalistic comprehension
- 5 Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials
- 6 The NOLB model: a model of the natural organization of language and the brain
- 7 Towards a neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading
- 8 Putting Broca’s region into context: fMRI evidence for a role in predictive language processing
- 9 Towards a multi-brain perspective on communication in dialogue
- 10 On the generation of shared symbols
- 11 What are naturalistic comprehension paradigms teaching us about language?
- Index
5 - Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use
- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Plates
- Figures
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- 1 Cognitive neuroscience of natural language use: introduction
- 2 fMRI methods for studying the neurobiology of language under naturalistic conditions
- 3 Why study connected speech production?
- 4 Situation models in naturalistic comprehension
- 5 Language comprehension in rich non-linguistic contexts: combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials
- 6 The NOLB model: a model of the natural organization of language and the brain
- 7 Towards a neurocognitive poetics model of literary reading
- 8 Putting Broca’s region into context: fMRI evidence for a role in predictive language processing
- 9 Towards a multi-brain perspective on communication in dialogue
- 10 On the generation of shared symbols
- 11 What are naturalistic comprehension paradigms teaching us about language?
- Index
Summary
The present chapter reviews the literature on visually situated language comprehension against the background that most theories of real-time sentence comprehension have ignored rich non-linguistic contexts. However, listeners’ eye movements to objects during spoken language comprehension, as well as their event-related brain potentials (ERPs), have revealed that non-linguistic cues play an important role for real-time comprehension. In fact, referential processes are rapid and central in visually situated spoken language comprehension and even abstract words are rapidly grounded in objects through semantic associations. Similar ERP responses for non-linguistic and linguistic effects on comprehension suggest these two information sources are on a par in informing language comprehension. ERPs further revealed that non-linguistic cues affect lexical‒semantic as well as compositional processes, thus further cementing the role of rich non-linguistic context in language comprehension. However, there is also considerable ambiguity in the linking between comprehension processes and each of these two measures (eye movements and ERPs). Combining eye-tracking and event-related brain potentials would improve the interpretation of individual measures and thus insights into visually situated language comprehension.
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- Cognitive Neuroscience of Natural Language Use , pp. 77 - 100Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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