Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging, Donders Institute, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
PLoS Biol. 2024 May 31;22(5):e3002656. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002656. eCollection 2024 May.
Negation is key for cognition but has no physical basis, raising questions about its neural origins. A new study in PLOS Biology on the negation of scalar adjectives shows that negation acts in part by altering the response to the adjective it negates.
否定对于认知至关重要,但却没有物理基础,这引发了对其神经起源的疑问。《公共科学图书馆·生物学》上一项关于范畴形容词否定的新研究表明,否定的作用部分是通过改变对被否定的形容词的反应来实现的。