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SUBMITTER: Matchin W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4252493 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Brain and language 20140927
Accounts of the role of Broca's area in sentence comprehension range from specific syntactic operations to domain-general processes. The present study was designed to tease apart these two general accounts by measuring the BOLD response to two syntactically distinct long-distance dependencies that invoke abstractly similar predictive processes: backward anaphora and filler-gap dependencies. Previous research has observed distance effects in Broca's area for filler-gap dependencies, but not canon ...[more]