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SUBMITTER: Dehghani M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6867091 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dehghani Morteza M Boghrati Reihane R Man Kingson K Hoover Joe J Gimbel Sarah I SI Vaswani Ashish A Zevin Jason D JD Immordino-Yang Mary Helen MH Gordon Andrew S AS Damasio Antonio A Kaplan Jonas T JT
Human brain mapping 20170920 12
Drawing from a common lexicon of semantic units, humans fashion narratives whose meaning transcends that of their individual utterances. However, while brain regions that represent lower-level semantic units, such as words and sentences, have been identified, questions remain about the neural representation of narrative comprehension, which involves inferring cumulative meaning. To address these questions, we exposed English, Mandarin, and Farsi native speakers to native language translations of ...[more]