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Language Prediction Is Reflected by Coupling between Frontal Gamma and Posterior Alpha Oscillations
Author(s) -
Lin Wang,
Peter Hagoort,
Ole Jensen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of cognitive neuroscience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.597
H-Index - 214
eISSN - 1530-8898
pISSN - 0898-929X
DOI - 10.1162/jocn_a_01190
Subject(s) - magnetoencephalography , sentence , psychology , context (archaeology) , sentence processing , unification , word (group theory) , alpha (finance) , cognitive psychology , linguistics , natural language processing , electroencephalography , computer science , neuroscience , developmental psychology , paleontology , philosophy , biology , programming language , construct validity , psychometrics
Readers and listeners actively predict upcoming words during language processing. These predictions might serve to support the unification of incoming words into sentence context and thus rely on interactions between areas in the language network. In the current magnetoencephalography study, participants read sentences that varied in contextual constraints so that the predictability of the sentenc...

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