Using fMRI experiments, Zhang et al. found that activation of two canonical language areas in sentence comprehension reflects the working memory of social semantics rather than general semantic and/or
BackgroundExploring the brain reorganization patterns associated with language recovery would promote the treatment of global aphasia. While functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) has been wide
In order to memorize sentences we use both processes of language comprehension during encoding and processes of language production during maintenance. While the former processes are easily testable v
1. The experiment The experiment is described in detail in the following publication: Wanrooij, Boersma & Van Zuijen (2014). Frontiers in Psychology: Language Sciences</
The human language processing mechanism assigns a structure to the incoming materials as they unfold. There is evidence that the parser prefers some attachment types over others; however, theories of
