The influence semantics on syntactic analysis: fMRI study

语义对句法分析的影响：功能磁共振成像研究

• 批准号: 7196755
• 负责人: Sharlene D Newman
• 金额: $ 7.25万
• 依托单位: TRUSTEES OF INDIANA UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-10 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7196755
• 关键词: Agreement; Architecture; Attention; Behavioral; Brain; Canis familiaris; Cattle; Class; Comprehension; Cues; Event; Experimental Designs; France; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Goals; Individual; Influentials; Knowledge; Language; Linguistics; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Modeling; Movement; Nature; Numbers; Orthography; Personal Satisfaction; Placement; Process; Research; Research Design; Resolution; Role; Semantics; Sorbus; Staging; Structure; System; Thinking; Time; Work; behavior measurement; design; heuristics; language processing; lexical; novel; parallel processing; phonology; relating to nervous system; research study; response; semantic processing; syntax; theories

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to examine the impact of semantics on syntactic analysis. The experiments described use both behavioral measures and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the interaction between semantic and syntactic processing during sentence comprehension. There are two major aims of the proposal. The first is to obtain a better understanding of how highly familiar, world knowledge influences sentence comprehension processes. The second aim is to determine what aspects of syntactic processing are influenced by semantics. Recently, it has been proposed that syntactic processing occurs in at least two stages and it may be that semantic information has an impact on only one stage. Taken together, the proposed studies are designed to uncover some of the key aspects of semantic and syntactic processing as well as provide a greater understanding of the collaborative nature of these two essential language processes. The proposed experiments use novel experimental designs in order to provide not only a clearer depiction of the behavioral processing but also the underlying neural architecture that supports language.

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案的目的是检查语义对句法分析的影响。该实验描述了同时使用行为度量和功能磁共振成像（fMRI）检查句子理解过程中语义和句法处理之间的相互作用。该提案有两个主要目标。首先是更好地理解世界知识高度熟悉的影响句子理解过程。第二个目的是确定句法处理的哪些方面受语义的影响。最近，有人提出句法处理至少在两个阶段发生，可能是语义信息仅对一个阶段产生影响。综上所述，拟议的研究旨在揭示语义和句法处理的一些关键方面，并对这两个基本语言过程的协作性质有了更深入的了解。提出的实验使用新颖的实验设计不仅提供了对行为处理的清晰描述，而且还提供支持语言的基本神经体系结构。