Abstract

The proposed research aims to chart sentence processing as it unfolds over time in both normal and the neurologically impaired. the purpose in doing so is to merge linguistic issues involving the representation of verbs and real-time processing issues, those that directly concern the molecular nature of sentence processing. These issues specifically involve what happens after the verb and its structural properties are activated during sentence comprehension - when verb processing must interact with the further course of sentence processing. The experiments to be conducted will primarily use a complex secondary task - a cross-modal lexical decision - to assess local sentence processing load, both at the verb and at points after the appearance of the verb during the temporal unfolding of the sentence. The significance of this research lies in its exploration of brain/language relations, specifically, in the exploration of the lexical knowledge base and the devices that exploit this knowledge for the purpose of sentence understanding.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
Type
First Independent Research Support & Transition (FIRST) Awards (R29)
Project #
5R29DC000494-05
Application #
2125724
Study Section
Sensory Disorders and Language Study Section (CMS)
Project Start
1988-09-25
Project End
1994-08-31
Budget Start
1992-09-01
Budget End
1994-08-31
Support Year
5
Fiscal Year
1992
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
Florida Atlantic University
Department
Psychology
Type
Schools of Arts and Sciences
DUNS #
004147534
City
Boca Raton
State
FL
Country
United States
Zip Code
33431

  Publications

Ferrill, Michelle; Love, Tracy; Walenski, Matthew et al. (2012) The time-course of lexical activation during sentence comprehension in people with aphasia. Am J Speech Lang Pathol 21:S179-89
Poirier, Josee; Wolfinger, Katie; Spellman, Lisa et al. (2010) The real-time processing of sluiced sentences. J Psycholinguist Res 39:411-27
Brumm, Kathleen; Walenski, Matthew; Haist, Frank et al. (2010) Functional magnetic resonance imaging of a child with Alice in Wonderland syndrome during an episode of micropsia. J AAPOS 14:317-22
Santi, Andrea; Grodzinsky, Yosef (2010) fMRI adaptation dissociates syntactic complexity dimensions. Neuroimage 51:1285-93
Callahan, Sarah M; Shapiro, Lewis P; Love, Tracy (2010) Parallelism effects and verb activation: the sustained reactivation hypothesis. J Psycholinguist Res 39:101-18
Grodzinsky, Yosef (2010) The picture of the linguistic brain: how sharp can it be? Reply to Fedorenko & Kanwisher. Lang Linguist Compass 4:605-622
Poirier, Josée; Shapiro, Lewis P; Love, Tracy et al. (2009) The on-line processing of verb-phrase ellipsis in aphasia. J Psycholinguist Res 38:237-53
de Goede, Dieuwke; Shapiro, Lewis P; Wester, Femke et al. (2009) The time course of verb processing in Dutch sentences. J Psycholinguist Res 38:181-99