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语言理解的时间动态中的句法、概念和逻辑:来自事件相关电位的证据。

Syntax, concepts, and logic in the temporal dynamics of language comprehension: evidence from event-related potentials.

机构信息

McGill University, Centre for Research on Language, Mind and Brain, and School of, Communication Sciences & Disorders, USA.

出版信息

Neuropsychologia. 2010 May;48(6):1525-42. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.01.013. Epub 2010 Feb 4.

Abstract

Logic has been intertwined with the study of language and meaning since antiquity, and such connections persist in present day research in linguistic theory (formal semantics) and cognitive psychology (e.g., studies of human reasoning). However, few studies in cognitive neuroscience have addressed logical dimensions of sentence-level language processing, and none have directly compared these aspects of processing with syntax and lexical/conceptual-semantics. We used ERPs to examine a violation paradigm involving "Negative Polarity Items" or NPIs (e.g., ever/any), which are sensitive to logical/truth-conditional properties of the environments in which they occur (e.g., presence/absence of negation in: John hasn't ever been to Paris, versus: John has *ever been to Paris). Previous studies examining similar types of contrasts found a mix of effects on familiar ERP components (e.g., LAN, N400, P600). We argue that their experimental designs and/or analyses were incapable of separating which effects are connected to NPI-licensing violations proper. Our design enabled statistical analyses teasing apart genuine violation effects from independent effects tied solely to lexical/contextual factors. Here unlicensed NPIs elicited a late P600 followed in onset by a late left anterior negativity (or "L-LAN"), an ERP profile which has also appeared elsewhere in studies targeting logical semantics. Crucially, qualitatively distinct ERP-profiles emerged for syntactic and conceptual semantic violations which we also tested here. We discuss how these findings may be linked to previous findings in the ERP literature. Apart from methodological recommendations, we suggest that the study of logical semantics may aid advancing our understanding of the underlying neurocognitive etiology of ERP components.

摘要

逻辑自古以来就与语言和意义的研究交织在一起,这种联系在当今的语言理论(形式语义学)和认知心理学(例如人类推理研究)的研究中仍然存在。然而,认知神经科学中很少有研究涉及句子层面语言处理的逻辑维度,也没有直接比较这些方面的处理与句法和词汇/概念语义。我们使用 ERP 来研究涉及“否定极性项目”或 NPIs(例如 ever/any)的违反范式,这些项目对它们出现的环境的逻辑/真值条件性质敏感(例如,在 John hasn't ever been to Paris 中存在/不存在否定,而在 John has *ever been to Paris 中存在否定)。之前研究类似对比的研究发现,对熟悉的 ERP 成分(例如 LAN、N400、P600)有混合影响。我们认为,他们的实验设计和/或分析无法将与 NPI 许可违反有关的影响分开。我们的设计使统计分析能够从仅与词汇/上下文因素有关的独立影响中分离出真正的违反影响。在这里,未许可的 NPIs 引发了晚期 P600,随后是晚期左前负(或“L-LAN”),这种 ERP 特征也出现在针对逻辑语义的其他研究中。至关重要的是,对于句法和概念语义违反,出现了定性上不同的 ERP 特征,我们也在这里进行了测试。我们讨论了这些发现如何与 ERP 文献中的先前发现相关联。除了方法建议外,我们还认为逻辑语义的研究可能有助于我们更好地理解 ERP 成分的潜在神经认知病因。

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