A predictive coding framework for rapid neural dynamics during sentence-level language comprehension

A predictive coding framework for rapid neural dynamics during sentence-level language comprehension.

There is a growing literature investigating the relationship between oscillatory neural dynamics measured using electroencephalography (EEG) and/or magnetoencephalography (MEG), and sentence-level language comprehension. Recent proposals have suggested a strong link between predictive coding accounts of the hierarchical flow of information in the brain, and oscillatory neural dynamics in the be...

A Predictive Coding Perspective on Beta Oscillations during Sentence-Level Language Comprehension

Oscillatory neural dynamics have been steadily receiving more attention as a robust and temporally precise signature of network activity related to language processing. We have recently proposed that oscillatory dynamics in the beta and gamma frequency ranges measured during sentence-level comprehension might be best explained from a predictive coding perspective. Under our proposal we related ...

Location Of The Topic Sentence, Level Of Language Proficiency, and Reading Comprehension

Exploring the neural dynamics underpinning individual differences in sentence comprehension.

This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate individual differences in the neural underpinnings of sentence comprehension, with a focus on neural adaptability (dynamic configuration of neural networks with changing task demands). Twenty-seven undergraduates, with varying working memory capacities and vocabularies, read sentences that were either syntactically simple or c...

Frequency-based Segregation of Syntactic and Semantic Unification during Online Sentence Level Language Comprehension

During sentence level language comprehension, semantic and syntactic unification are functionally distinct operations. Nevertheless, both recruit roughly the same brain areas (spatially overlapping networks in the left frontotemporal cortex) and happen at the same time (in the first few hundred milliseconds after word onset). We tested the hypothesis that semantic and syntactic unification are ...