期刊
BRAIN AND COGNITION
卷 153, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bc.2021.105775
关键词
ERP; Language; Late positivity; Narrative
资金
- European Community [FP7-ICT 231267, FP7-ICT-270490, FP7-ICT-612139]
- Region Bourgogne-Franche-Comte Projet ANER RobotSelf
- French ANR Comprendre
This research investigates the common neural processes underlying comprehension of visual images and sentences. By comparing narrative processing across different modalities, the study found common central and frontal positivities in response to narrative incoherence, as well as a posterior positivity specific to sentences in a very late window.
Understanding the neural processes underlying the comprehension of visual images and sentences remains a major open challenge in cognitive neuroscience. We previously demonstrated with fMRI and DTI that comprehension of visual images and sentences describing human activities recruits a common extended parietaltemporal-frontal semantic system. The current research tests the hypothesis that this common semantic system will display similar ERP profiles during processing in these two modalities, providing further support for the common comprehension system. We recorded EEG from nave subjects as they saw simple narratives made up of a first visual image depicting a human event, followed by a second image that was either a sequentially coherent narrative follow-up, or not, of the first. Incoherent second stimuli depict the same agents but shifted into a different situation. In separate blocks of trials the same protocol was presented using narrative sentence stimuli. Part of the novelty is the comparison of sentence and visual narrative responses. ERPs revealed common neural profiles for narrative processing across image and sentence modalities in the form of early and late central and frontal positivities in response to narrative incoherence. There was an additional posterior positivity only for sentences in a very late window. These results are discussed in the context of ERP signatures of narrative processing and meaning, and a current model of narrative comprehension.
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