Syntactic Unification Operations Are Reflected in Oscillatory Dynamics during On-line Sentence Comprehension

There is growing evidence suggesting that synchronization changes in the oscillatory neuronal dynamics in the EEG or MEG reflect the transient coupling and uncoupling of functional networks related to different aspects of language comprehension. In this work, we examine how sentence-level syntactic unification operations are reflected in the oscillatory dynamics of the MEG. Participants read sentences that were either correct, contained a word category violation, or were constituted of random word sequences devoid of syntactic structure. A time

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: JOCN
• Authors: Marcel C. M. Bastiaansen, Lilla Magyari, Peter Hagoort
• Keywords: JOCN 2010, Random Word Sequences, Word Category, Word Category Violation